link icon de-highlighted

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  diyapril · Member · Jan 1, 2015 at 11:05 pm

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  The link icon in new posts is de-highlighted. I tried clearing cache and cookies and removing some plugins. This happened once before but I can’t remember how ti fix it?

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 3, 2015 at 6:23 pm

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  Could you point me to a URL example where this is occurring? Once I see this in action, I’ll be able to help more!

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  diyapril · Member · Jan 4, 2015 at 2:18 am

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  Of course. Here’s a link from within my WordPress account. I hope it’s what you need.

  https://diyapril.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2527&action=edit

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 5, 2015 at 3:17 pm

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  Thanks for clarifying! Sorry for not understanding your question at first. So, for the link icon to work correctly, you will first need to highlight the text that you want linked. Then, the icon will be clickable.

  Here’s an example:

  http://d.pr/i/WyLL

  Can you try highlighting some text and see if that makes a difference?

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  diyapril · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:22 am

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  I add links to every post, so I’m familiar with the highlighting before clicking the link. Tonight I noticed the “link” icon was highlighted again until I made a change in the script. It went away?

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  diyapril · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:23 am

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  I add links to every post, so I’m familiar with the highlighting before clicking the link. Tonight I noticed the “link” icon was highlighted again until I made a change in the script. It went away?

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  diyapril · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 5:25 am

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  Well… good grief. You might be right. I thought the link was highlighted before I copied.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 6, 2015 at 3:13 pm

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  You’ll need to highlight text first, which clarifies what text you want to be linked. Otherwise, the link icon will remain grey as the editor isn’t sure what text to hyperlink.