Paste URL into selection on mobile

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The discussion revolves around a feature on mobile devices that allows users to paste a URL into selected text to create a markdown hyperlink. MarcP initially reported that this feature was broken on mobile, specifically on iOS with Safari. Heliosurge requested clarification and provided an alternative method for creating hyperlinks. MarcP explained the “Paste URL into selection” feature and its intended functionality. Heliosurge acknowledged the feature and its usefulness. Vaping_Community mentioned that the feature works on the Discourse Hub app. MarcP later stated that they could not reproduce the issue, suggesting it might be a Safari-specific bug.

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If I am correct, we used to be able to select text and paste a URL to get a markdown hyperlink, just like on desktop. Did this break recently?

I’m on iOS, Safari.

2

Can you post more details and maybe a pic to help make things clearer.

By hyper link do you mean something like this?

Link to your Op Post

In the composer click on this

Link to your Op Post (https://paste.url/into_selection on- mobile/326531?u=heliosurge) In the composer click on this. (Captioned by AI)
Link to your Op Post (https://paste.url/into_selection on- mobile/326531?u=heliosurge) In the composer click on this. (Captioned by AI)864×1218 142 KB

To create a hyper link.

Or posting link say in the topic title?

3

“Paste URL into selection” works exactly how you read it:

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U select some text and paste a URL into that selection :slight_smile:

This works on desktop just fine, but it broke recently on mobile.

4

Thank you. I wasn’t aware of that method to create one. Typically have been making them the more manual way. Lol

5

Works on the discourse hub app..

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Hmm, currently I can’t repro this myself either.. maybe it was a bug in Safari? I opened the topic right after I wasn’t able to do it here on Meta yesterday.