Link "help text" is applied to link text component only [#2836062]

- Add a link field to a content type
- Provide custom help text
- Disable the link text field
- Save

The custom description is not used. See screenshots (it is still showing "This must be an external URL such as http://example.com.").

It seems that the custom help text is only applied to the link text component. If you set the field to only display the web address part, then the help text does not appear anywhere.

Suggested solution

Help text should apply to the whole fieldset. There should be dedicated overridable help text for each of the web address and link text parts.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#6	2836062-6-link-help-text.patch	3.32 KB	hey_germano
#6	8.4.x: PHP 5.6 & MySQL 5.5 22,112 pass, 2 fail
	Screen Shot 2016-12-15 at 11.57.25.png	17.95 KB	Leo Pitt
	Screen Shot 2016-12-15 at 11.57.00.png	48.97 KB	Leo Pitt

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Comments

Comment #1

15 December 2016 at 11:59

Leo Pitt created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

Leo Pitt CreditAttribution: Leo Pitt commented 15 December 2016 at 12:10

Title:	Link text "manage form display" settings are not used	» Link "help text" is applied to link text component only
Issue summary:	View changes

Comment #3

darrenwh CreditAttribution: darrenwh as a volunteer and at Investis Digital commented 15 December 2016 at 14:24

Category:

Bug report

» Feature request

I think this should be a feature request

Comment #4

Leo Pitt CreditAttribution: Leo Pitt commented 16 December 2016 at 09:01

Category:

Feature request

» Bug report

I'm not sure - it certainly feels like a bug. The help text doesn't appear where it does on every other field type, and there is no explanation as to why. I'm pretty sure this is not working as intended.

Comment #5

16 December 2016 at 09:01

Version:

8.3.x-dev

» 8.4.x-dev

Drupal 8.3.0-alpha1 will be released the week of January 30, 2017, which means new developments and disruptive changes should now be targeted against the 8.4.x-dev branch. For more information see the Drupal 8 minor version schedule and the Allowed changes during the Drupal 8 release cycle.

Comment #6

hey_germano

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Minneapolis, MN, USA

CreditAttribution: hey_germano at Advomatic for Stanford University commented 31 July 2017 at 23:19

Assigned:	Unassigned	» hey_germano
Status:	Active	» Needs review

File	Size
2836062-6-link-help-text.patch	3.32 KB
8.4.x: PHP 5.6 & MySQL 5.5 22,112 pass, 2 fail

Felt like a bug to me, too, and I could reproduce it in 8.4.x-dev.

Here's a patch that prepends the admin-entered help text for the Link field before any description text that the Link module sets. This is only needed in cases where the Link Title field is hidden.