By auto linking I mean that when you submit the CKeditor form that has plain unlinked URL's in it, it adds <a> tags around the link with the href set to the plain text URL.
So, I need to change this behaviour to add a target="_blank" into the <a> tag that is generated. I've had a look at the API and found the htmlParser class, but it doesn't look like any of the methods would achieve what I need to do.
Any suggestions would be appreciated please.
Thank you in advance
Wed, 11/10/2010 - 04:55
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Re: auto linking
bump. anyone got any ideas please?
I'm looking at the htmlWriter class now, and thinking I might be able to use that? But there is no <a> tags in the markup as it is created on saving.
Re: auto linking
I dont think the editor itself has any built in methods to accomplish this task.
But, off the top of my head you could just read through the content and sniff out http://... links using regex and add the anchor tag. You could do this server side once the content is submitted or even via JS using the getData() method.