How to create a link in CKEDITOR via API

I have a custom plugin that do some stuff and at the end of it's processing it should create a link in HTML using the selected text (the selected HTML, actually) if some text is currently selected. The selected HTML formating must be preserved (i.e. the HTML tags and attributes must not be lost) and the link must be created around all the elements. In the FCKEditor (old version of CKEDITOR) it was possible to do:

FCK.CreateLink("mylink");

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 11:02

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

Re: How to create a link in CKEDITOR via API

You should be able to do it with something like this:

var attributes={href:'mylink'};

            var style = new CKEDITOR.style( { element : 'a', attributes : attributes } );
            style.type = CKEDITOR.STYLE_INLINE;      
            style.apply( editor.document );

Wed, 08/08/2012 - 15:15

tberne

Joined: 07/08/2012

Posts: 2

Re: How to create a link in CKEDITOR via API

alfonsoml wrote:You should be able to do it with something like this:

var attributes={href:'mylink'};

            var style = new CKEDITOR.style( { element : 'a', attributes : attributes } );
            style.type = CKEDITOR.STYLE_INLINE;      
            style.apply( editor.document );

Thanks. That worked fine!!!

Tue, 12/04/2012 - 03:31

(Reply to #3) #4

f1crazed

Joined: 04/12/2012

Posts: 1

Any idea why this wouldn't be

Any idea why this wouldn't be working in IE?

The error I am getting is:

Error: Unable to get value of the property 'createBookmarks': object is null or undefined

I am using version 3.6.5.

Thanks for any help.