Add link attributes and target natively.

Patch added.

Just adding the related issue from my issue queue at Image Link Attributes.

Cheers,
Andrew

Uploaded another patch. I noticed that there was a line of troubleshooting code in the original.

Make sure that you run update.php after patching the module so that you get the updates to the module config, which contain the attributes and targets.

Cheers,
Andrew

New Patch to remove the coding standards messages.

Applied the patch on #5 and its working fine.
Adding screenshots. thanks

@MukhtarM, Thanks for reviewing and testing the patch. Hopefully the maintainer will have a moment to review this and weigh in on it as well.

I'm updating the issue with a new patch that includes hook_update_N() to make drupal install the config file that contains the target attributes and those for the class and rel attributes. This way, anyone who is using the existing module won't have to uninstall and reinstall the module in order to get the attributes. All they'll need to do is update the module and run the database updates.

I've also changed the status to Needs Review and assigned the issue to myself.

Cheers,
Andrew

The last submitted patch, 7: add-link-attributes-natively-3378313-7.patch, failed testing. View results →

Here we go again...
Attaching another patch with a schema file that will hopefully pass testing and changing to Needs Review. I'm not sure about the other tests but the majority of the failures appear to be the result of not including a schema file.

The last submitted patch, 9: add-link-attributes-natively-3378313-9.patch, failed testing. View results →

I think the reason why this is failing tests is because my patch doesn't accommodate for Responsive Image Link wrappers... Yet.

I'll have to do some more work and submit another patch.

The attached patch provides for Responsive Image formatting with attributes for target, class & rel.

Hopefully this will allow the patch to pass the tests. If not, I'll have to reach out to the maintainer to see if he can assist.

Cheers,
Andrew

The last submitted patch, 12: add-link-attributes-natively-3378313-12.patch, failed testing. View results →

Hi Andrew (@awasson),

Thank you very much for your interest in the Image Link Formatter → module and for raising this feature request, it's greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot also for all the code contributions, in particular, all the patches, comments and great idea suggested in the issue summary.
 

Add link attributes natively to the link formatter module

 
I think this use case should have been covered already with the second version of the module, in the 2.1.x branch, see the documentation here:
https://git.drupalcode.org/project/image_link_formatter/-/tree/2.1.x?ref...

Link field settings

It should integrate fine with modules altering the link field, such as Link Attributes widget → or Link target → , since attributes are carried over and displayed in the link wrapping the image.
For example, if the field is configured to allow user to select to open the link URL in a new window, then this setting will also be applied to the image link.

Corresponding to the line of code at:
https://git.drupalcode.org/project/image_link_formatter/-/blob/8f7562b9a...

In other words: The feature you are suggesting in this ticket and implemented in the patch is already currently available out-of-the-box (immediately), without any code, by installing and configuring contrib module Link Attributes widget → .

I have given it a quick test and here are a few screenshots below of the configuration of the Link Attributes form Widget formatter and the resulting HTML in page, displayed with the Image Link Formatter module:

Link Attributes form Widget formatter configuration example:

 

Resulting HTML displaying a link with attributes wrapped around an image displayed with image_link_formatter.

 

I'm not seeing any attribute from your patch that couldn't be obtained through simple back-end configuration (no code solution), with the existing base of contrib modules.
Additionally, if more attributes are needed, the Link Attributes Widget formatter module seems to provide advanced API features allowing to easily extend its features by adding any number of custom attributes.
 

Which therefore brings the following questions:

Is there any particular reason you would like this feature implemented natively in the image_link_formatter module?

Would there be anything wrong in using the Link Attributes widget → module to provide these features?
(seems very popular with more than 40K reported installs and very complete with tests, doc and all)
 

To be straight, from a maitainer's perspective, I think you'd understand that less code in the module means less maintenance work, less tests, less doc, less support requests, etc...
On top of that, as detailed above, it seems there is actually a valid method of obtaining the requested feature, "out-of-the-box", which seems like an acceptable solution to this use case at the moment.
In terms of maintainer's/coder's perspective, it does make sense to keep both sets of features separated, so each maintainer can focus on a smaller and more specific code base (git repo).
 

I don't know what you think and if that would make sense to you, but in any case, I would greatly appreciate your feedback.
I'm not against getting the patch committed, but if possible I'd like to hear more valid points that would justify the patch is absolutely necessary and would bring something new, that couldn't necessarily be obtained without code, at the moment.

I hope I was able to provide some elements of answer, but feel free to let us know if I missed or overlooked anything, I would be very happy to take another look at the feature or patch.

Once again, thank you very much for your help, testing, feedback and contributions, it's grealty appreciated.
Cheers!

Hi @hockey2112,

Thanks a lot for your feedback on this issue.

This image and link are both part of a paragraph, which I have added to a block. Could that be the issue? What else would cause the link target to be ignored?

I have just done a test locally, with a fresh D10 install :

• Drupal core:10.1.6
• image_link_formatter:2.1.1
• link_attributes:2.1.0
• paragraphs:1.16.0

 
Everything seems to work just fine, see below the resulting HTML:

What else would cause the link target to be ignored?

Maybe there could be some kind of overrides in your theme or other modules.
I would recommend you perhaps try on a fresh Drupal core install without any potentially conflicting modules, or try changing the theme on your current project and try to take the debugging from there.

I hope this answer will help, but in any case, feel free to report back if you manage to find the problem with your project.
Thanks in advance !

I switched my theme to Olivero, and sure enough the link attributes we displayed. I then changed to Bootstrap Barrio base theme (which I use in conjunction with my Barrio child theme), and the link attributes were not displayed. So it appears it must be an issue with Barrio. Very strange, because I use this module in pretty much all sites that I build and it has always worked with those.

@hockey2112, It sounds to me like the bootstrap theme is overriding the FieldFormatter class in Image Link Formatter or overriding the Field Formatter template in Image Link Attributes.

If the theme has a twig template for the image formatter and the theme uses some kind of variation on template_preprocess_image_formatter() then that would do it. The them may also just be overriding the Core ImageFormatter and the one inside Image Link Formatter.

Andrew