Question

I am using the Umbraco WYSIWYG datatype, and I noticed when using the HTML window to input HTML, that an A tag

<a href="http://www.someurl.com">link</a>

Will end up being:

<a href="/http.....>link</a>

This also happens if the link is just http://www.something.com and not http://. It will also start with a (/).

As a bonus side affect, if it does have http:// in the link, the forward slash will change this link from

http://

to

/http:/     (single forward slash like its a path)

The WYSIWYG is the TinyMCE WYSIWYG. Why does it do this, and what can I do to change it?

Answer 1

You need to change the TinyMCE config to change this behavior. In the file config/tinyMceConfig.config, add this to the <customConfig> section at the end of the file:

<config key="relative_urls">true</config>

Read about relative_urls at tinymce site.