Stopping auto-hyperlink detection when using "contentEditable"

BillyRayPreachersSon · Jun 25, 2004

Hi,

I have a problem when using the "contentEditable" feature of IE.

Here's a simple test harness I have built:

Code:

<html>
<body onload="document.getElementById('myDiv').focus();">
	<div contenteditable="true" id="myDiv" style="width:300px; height:100px; border:1px solid #000000; padding:10px;"></div>
</body>
</html>

My problem is this. If you run the above code, and type "

http://www.google.com"

into the box, and then type a space (" "), it auto-detects the URL, and underlines and colourises ("colorizes"

) it.

My question is: How can I stop this from happening? I cannot work out how to stop it, or even how to detect it (so I can manually run an "unlink" command).

I'm using IE6 on Win XP Pro, but I think it would happen on IE5.5+.

Thanks in advance!

Dan

simonchristieis · Jun 28, 2004

Here's how you can access the source code through another window:

javascript:void(window.open("javascript:document.open(\"text/plain\");document.write(opener.document.body.parentNode.outerHTML)"))

perhaps you can butcher this to undo the anchor ?? not sure if the security settings will allow this.

just a thought

simon

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