How to turn off automatic recognition of email & hyperlinks

[Ross Presser]

Library: ASP.NET AJAX Q1 2009

Control: RadEditor

Browser: IE7 or above

When a RadEditor control is presented and the user types an email address like "[e-mail]", the RadEditor automatically changes it to a mailto: hyperlink.  If they type "www.aleyant.com" it is automatically changed to a hyperlink to http://www.aleyant.com. Et cetera.  The hyperlink can then be manually removed, but that's an extra step.

The automatic recognition does not happen if the browser is anything else: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera...

How can the behavior be turned off for IE so that we get a uniform experience?

[Rumen]

Hi Ross,

I am afraid that it is not possible to disable this browser mechanism for link creation.

The automatic link creation is provided by the Rich Text Editing engine of Internet Explorer that RadEditor uses in this browser.  Unfortunately, Internet Explorer does not offer a mechanism or client-side API for disabling the text to link / e-mail recognition and conversion.

You will reproduce the same behavior in a standard editable DIV / IFRAME element as well as in our competitors' editors.

Best regards,
Rumen
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[aSta]

Hi,
I have one simple question - is there anything new in this topic after 2 years? I'm developing an intranet application and our users must use IE. Is there any way, how to configure IE to disable this function via registry or Group Policy? Or is something new in RadEditor API - I can't find anything usefull...

Thank you.

[Rumen]

Hello,

This IE browser feature could be disabled in IE9 only. You can do that using the following code:

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<script type="text/javascript">
function OnClientLoad(editor) {
 editor.get_document().execCommand("AutoUrlDetect", false, false)
}
</script>
<telerik:RadEditor runat="server"ID="RadEditor"OnClientLoad="OnClientLoad"></telerik:RadEditor>

You can find more information about the AutoUrlDetect command identifier of IE9 in the following MSDN blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2010/09/15/ie9-beta-minor-change-list.aspx.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

[aSta]

Great!
Thank you very much.