In the custom extension we use there is code that lets you select a CSS 
classname by adding {.classname} to the end of the text area.

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On Mar 5, 2013, at 1:48 PM, "Emmanouil Batsis (Manos)" <ma...@abiss.gr> wrote:

> 
> IF I understand you correctly you might be able to simply tackle the issue 
> using the right CSS selector to apply styles for external links.
> 
> If links pointing inside the site use URLs not starting with "http" you might 
> want to do something like the following to match external links:
> 
> a[href^="http://";] { color: red; }
> 
> hth,
> 
> Manos
> 
> On 03/05/2013 10:18 AM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> @Ioan: that was exactly what I was trying to avoid, it feels a bit
>> cumbersome to type the whole link instead something like
>> [text][1](.whatevercssclass) or similar
>> 
>> @Shane: yep, had checked also that link, unfortunately, "Special attribute
>> blocks can be used only with headers fenced code blocks." and I was looking
>> to arbitrarily style a given link (btw, the preview pane doesn't like
>> fenced blocks, or is it just me?)
>> 
>> seems I'll stick with inline html, I was puzzled to see that it doesn't
>> seem to be an easy way to put custom styles via markdown :-?
>> 
>> anyway, thanks for the insights
>> 
>> 
>> br,
>> juan pablo
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Shane Curcuru <a...@shanecurcuru.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> See if this helps:
>>> 
>>>   
>>> http://michelf.ca/projects/**php-markdown/extra/#spe-attr<http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/#spe-attr>
>>> 
>>> Which is linked from:
>>> 
>>>   
>>> http://www.apache.org/dev/**cmsref.html#markdown<http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#markdown>
>>> 
>>> - Shane
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 3/4/2013 6:46 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> probably is a dumb issue and I'm missing something obvious, but so far, I
>>>> haven't been able to solve it:
>>>> 
>>>> Is there an easy way to tell a markdown link to use a specific css class?
>>>> I'd like to render links pointing outside the incubator site with an
>>>> "external" css class. I know I can write the html equivalent, but that
>>>> feels unnatural, so I'd better avoid that option. I've been poking at a
>>>> few
>>>> site's sources, but haven't had any luck yet..
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> thx in advance!
>>>> 
>>>> br,
>>>> juan pablo
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