Link control: No way to see which word will become a link.

[paaljoachim]

Describe the bug... well not really a bug.... perhaps just a missing enhancement.

Opening up the link control to add a link the word or sentence marked to become a link becomes non selected/non marked. Like so...

From the above I have no idea to know which word will receive a link.

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Example solution is to mark the selected future link. Black underline, blue outline etc.

Yes. I do! I can see which word will become a link! Yay that makes me happy!

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To reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Write some words.
2. Select one of the words to become a link.
3. Open the link control.
4. Notice that one can not see which word will become a link.

Expected behavior
I expect to be able to see which word I selected to become a link when the link control is active.

Chrome
WP 5.4.2
Local test site using Twenty Twenty
Gutenberg plugin 8.3.0

[getdave]

@paaljoachim I believe that originally the popover UI used to have an arrow which pointed toward the element that triggered it.

See screencapture in #17846 (comment) for example of this.

Perhaps this got removed in G2 or perhaps it was never implemented for the RichText version of the Link Control?

[paaljoachim]

I asked Joen. He told me that @ellatrix can fix this by using iframe.

He mentioned that the text becomes cleared when the focus is on the popover. As one is not able to have a selection in the input field in one place while the focus is in the input field in another place. It is possible with an iframe.

[paaljoachim]

Here is a new very interesting Link control feature being designed by @shaunandrews
#23375

[ellatrix]

Duplicate of #6156.