Is this acceptable? - "After selecting an element, a pop-up allows the user to ... "

Question

I wrote this sentence:

After selecting an element, a pop-up allows the user to create an anchor using the element's text, a text pattern, or specific attributes of the element such as id, class.

However I most see something like

After selecting ...., the user creates ....

Does my sentence above is correct too?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell from the limited context the sentence you wrote is perfectly correct.

If you wanted to follow the template you show you could put it another way:

After selecting an element, the user creates an anchor, via a pop-up, using the element's...

But I think your original sentence is better.