Class dropdown on 'Insert link' modal

formations

When I insert a link in the text in my newsletter template, an Insert link popup comes up. One of the fields is a dropdown to choose a Class, but the options are only "None" or "Don't apply 'a' tag style settings". Is there any way to get classes from my custom style sheet to show up in this dropdown so the end user can assign classes to links in their newsletter?

jvstratum

Hi,

You can easily change the design of the links in the design panel.

formations

Yes, I understand I can globally change the style for the tags. I am trying to provide special classes that would override the global settings when applied to specific links. I'm trying to understand the purpose of the 'Class' dropdown in the link editor if there is no way to add any classes that can be accessed from the dropdown.

mihha

"Don't apply 'a' tag style settings" means that link style, configured under the Design section shown in the screenshot above, won't be applied to that specific link tag. That also mean that you CAN define your own class using "Add custom stylesheet" feature

formations

That makes sense and thanks for that explanation. But if I define various link classes in my own custom stylesheet, my end user wouldn't have a way of applying which one they want within the newsletter unless they do it in code view, which isn't really feasible for a non-developer. That's why I was wondering if the Class dropdown in the link editor could display any custom classes from the custom style sheet.

jvstratum

Hi,

Unfortunately it is not possible to add your own class to a link. Please feel free to raise a feature request for this on our feature request page: https://www.acymailing.com/feature-requests/

Instead of editing the html directly there is also a workaround on a per structure block basis. You can assign a block html id to your structure block and use that in your custom css to apply the styles you want.

So, if you assign "MyID" as html id you can add something like this to your custom css:

#MyID a {
 color: #ffffff;
 }

formations

Thanks, that's a good tip. Maybe I'll consider coding some specific blocks with IDs, then define some a classes based on those IDs so links will look a certain way just in those blocks. See, my client has an issue using the drag and drop buttons in Acy 7, because they always looked vertically squashed in Outlook on her laptop. So she doesn't have confidence that their audience isn't seeing them that way too. (Acyba tech support has been looking into it with no luck so far). So I'm just trying to create some sort of alternate to to built-in buttons that they can use that look more distinctive than the links in the regular body copy. Thanks for the ideas.

jvstratum

You're welcome, enjoy your Acymailing!