Is there any way to tell the editor to just leave all code as it is entered and don't attempt to convert into valid html entities?
Basically the issue is - we have various pages of validated html (ie.
&
instead of &,
£
instead of £)
This is all fine but we also have various affiliate links on the page which need to keep their original format. For example http://www.test.co.uk?id=test&test=test&testing=testing
I have been playing about with:
config.entities = false;
config.entities_latin = false;
config.ForceSimpleAmpersand = true;
This seems to actually have a negative effect and turn properly formated
£
into £ but still to convert the ampersands.
Basically when we put code into the editor, we want it to remain exactly as we have entered it whether that be properly formatted or not properly formatted
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Basically I'm just wondering if there is any way to get the editor to leave all source code alone and not to modify it any way.
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Usually you don't need to change the entities configuration and instead just set forceSimpleAmpersand = true
If you are talking about & in the contents, then those must be encoded or "bad things will happen"
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If you want to use always & instead of & then you just have to do a replace() on the returned data. It's even safer in your case, data.replace("&&&", "&&&"), that's safe and you won't have problems. You don't require any special API, configuration or anything.
In general terms, the browser might be the one encoding &, or you can get unexpected dataloss if the user types > in design view and instead of it being saved as > it's saved as > (etc...) I know that in general people isn't interested in reading previous explanations about why some thing work the way they do, and it's funnier to blame just on CKEditor instead of putting an extra line of code in your part
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As a side note, I did discover if I set the following values in the configuration, the ampersands are left alone:
basicEntities : false,
entities : false,
forceSimpleAmpersand : true,
All three must be set this way for this to work Not sure what, if any, side effects there might be...
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