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Tiny MCE changes MODx links

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    andrewhl Reply #1, 15 years, 11 months ago
    Hello,

    The TinyMCE wysiwyg plugin occasionally encodes the tilde of MODx links (e.g., [[~1]]) to something like "%7E". I believe it’s an ASCII code.

    I’ve set TinyMCE encoding to "raw" as a short term solution, but ideally I’d like to re-enable it and have TinyMCE ignore /only/ tildes. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

    Do you know a work-around?

    Thanks!
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      Mark Hamstra Reply #2, 15 years, 11 months ago
      TinyMCE version?
      MODx version?

      What is being outputted on the front-end: [[~1]], ~1, or a link, or..?
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        andrewhl Reply #3, 15 years, 11 months ago
        The links that are formatted like this:
        <a href="[[~115]]">
        are converted to:
        <a href="[[%7E115]]" _mce_href="[[~115]]">
        when the page is opened for editing and the visual editor is active.

        Browsers use the href property, not the _mce_href.

        MODx Revolution version 2.0.0-pl rev7212

        Any help you can offer would be great!
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          mIDO Reply #4, 15 years, 11 months ago
          Browsers will not read [[~115]] neither. I think you are looking into the manager code only. Take a look to your website output and paste it the generated code. It can not be: <a href="[[%7E115]]" _mce_href="[[~115]]">, it should be something like <a href="/mysite/homepage.html" >
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            andrewhl Reply #5, 15 years, 10 months ago
            So I converted my links to friendly URLs using the .htaccess file. Great.

            However, still whenever I open a file in the MODx manager (with TinyMCE set as the default editor), it automatically converts the links from friendly urls to the %7E# format.

            This is what happens: I load the resource, it initially displays (for half a second) in the default MODx HTML editor. Then TinyMCE loads and the view refreshes to the wysiwyg editor. If at this point I hit "Cancel" it asks me if I want to discard my changes. Since I haven’t modified the resource, TinyMCE has already applied their link formatting to the friendly URLs.

            If instead of cancelling I open the HTML editor, I can clearly see the following: <li><a href="[[%7E53]]" _mce_href="[[~53]]">Link title</a></li>
            That [[%7E53]] used to be an html link. If I save the document, the link will publish as is and it will cease to be navigable.

            Just to be absolutely clear, the link goes from <a href="/directory/page.html" _mce_href="/directory/page.html">Link</a> to <a href="[[%7E#]]" _mce_href="[[~#]]">Link</a>

            If I then replace the %7E# link with a friendly URL and save the resource, the page will update with the correct link.

            Any ideas?