Relative/absolute URLs and drag & drop

Problem : if I drag and drop a link with relative URL to another place in the editor, the relative link is transformed into an absolute link.

It does not happen with the demo sandbox. I'm using a special version of CKeditor, the WYSIWYG extension for mediawiki. I can try to tweek it so that it works like the present CKeditor version, but I don't know where to look for...

I have read that drag and drop behavior is controled by the browser and that CKeditor cannot handle that.However it seems that some control is possible.

Thanks

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 00:07

Varlin

Joined: 11/04/2014

Posts: 14

No idea at all ?

For me it's one one the most crippling of WYSIWYG ext, and it's frustrating to know there should be a simple trick somewere in CKeditor's code.

Fri, 02/27/2015 - 14:01

Varlin

Joined: 11/04/2014

Posts: 14

I found something interesting

I found something interesting, inspecting the effect on html source while testing in the demo.

If I create a relative link, the html will render :

<a href="Link" data-cke-saved-href="Link">Link text</a>

Then if I drag and drop this link, it becomes :

<a href="http://ckeditor.com/Link" data-cke-saved-href="Link">Link text</a>

So it seems this behaviour (adding the base url) is indeed imposed by the browsers (and unvoidable ?).

But the attribute "data-cke-saved-href" conserve the true link value. It seems to have been precisely introduced for this purpose.

So I know I could try to implement this attribute to my WYSIWYG's CKeditor version.

But I wonder if it's possible to catch an event "on drop" and to remove the base url at this moment. So far I did not succeed to get the text value being drag/dropped.