Mmmm… this is really strange.
If I follow your process (but change the link type to URL before pasting in the address) I get a popup error: “The URL is not specified”. I click OK to close the popup and then click OK in the link menu and it works, presumably because the focus changes back to the “Display Text” field after the error.
This is what I do to get the behaviour mentioned previously:
- Select some text
- Click the Link button from the tool bar. The Link dialog opens and the “Display Text” field is focused and the text I selected prior to clicking the Link button is selected
- Select “URL type link” from Link field dropdown using mouse
- Remove text from link field
- Paste URL
- Click OK
- View page in source mode. Link appears as
[[label >> url:label]]
Also, this seems like an IE issue. I’ve checked the same 2 workflows on Chrome and Firefox and everything works as expected.
I’m stuck with IE at our company, any ideas?