Prevent TinyMCE/Internet Explorer from converting URLs to links

I'm using TinyMCE to provide users the capability of simple text formatting (bold, italics, lists) on a textarea form field. Everthing is working properly except that in Internet Explorer (8 but I've read it happens on earlier versions), when users type a URL (e.g. www.google.com) it is automatically converted into an HTML link in the TinyMCE editor as they type. This does not happen in Firefox (3). How can I prevent IE from doing this?

I've initialized TinyMCE with the following:

tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme : "simple",
convert_urls : false
});

But I don't think convert_urls is intended to affect the behavior I'm describing:

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I tried:

function myCustomURLConverter(url, node, on_save) {
return url;
}

tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme : "simple",
urlconverter_callback : "myCustomURLConverter"
});

But similarly I think this is just a way to affect how/whether URLs are converted upon load/save, not to prevent them from being converted to links as users type:

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The issue I'm trying to fix is described in at least a couple of places:

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(third post, by tommya)

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Has anyone seen this before or have any suggestions on how to fix it? The TinyMCE code-base is pretty big and difficult to trace so I was hoping someone could help me isolate the issue a bit.

Doesn't seem to be a way to disable that in IE. It seems to be a 'feature' and it occurs on FCKEditor too. A couple alternatives, remove the <a> element out of the valid elements.

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Or do a serverside <a> tag parse to remove it.

I think this may be the 'feature'

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And here maybe a hint in getting it to work, but it looked like ActiveX and VB so I got lost pretty quick in my experiment

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Here's a working workaround, needing the paste plugin.
In your TinyMCE init config, add :

paste_preprocess : function(pl, o) {
// Strip <a> HTML tags from clipboard content (Happens on Internet Explorer)
o.content = o.content.replace( /(\s[a-z]+=")<a\s[^>]+>([^<]+)<\/a>/gi, '$1$2' );
}

I think I solved it this way:

remove_script_host: "false",
relative_urls: "false",
document_base_url : "http//www.mywebsite.nlhttp://www.mywebsite.nl",

I've solved this problem with these configs:


remove_script_host : false,
auto_cleanup_word : false,
relative_urls : false,
convert_urls : false,
verify_html : false,
convert_newlines_to_brs : false,
urlconvertor_callback: "convLinkVC",
document_base_url : "",
forced_root_block : '',