Support » Plugin: Advanced Editor Tools » Please allow placeholder hyperlinks

  • Sorry, I am not certain whether the following is a TinyMCE Advanced issue, or a TinyMCE issue.

    On my website I have a list of documents that will become available over time. Each item in the list has a hyperlink to the respective document. Something simple as:
    <a class="my-button" href="http://something">link</a>
    Documents that are not yet present but will become available later, I still want to include in the list to offer a complete overview, leaving out the href:
    <a class="my-button">link</a>
    In HTML5 this is perfectly all right; it is called a placeholder hyperlink. See for example this document.

    TinyMCE cannot handle this, but TinyMCE Advanced can, to some extent: When I enable the “Link (replaces the Insert/Edit Link dialog)” feature, I can add a href (“URL”) to a hyperlink without href that I created earlier with the text editor (the class attribute disappears, unfortunately).

    However, TinyMCE Advanced does not allow me to create a hyperlink element without specifying a href, or to remove the href from an existing hyperlink. In both cases the <a> element just disappears.

    Something else is that TinyMCE Advanced indicates that such placeholder hyperlinks are anchors which is clearly not correct, in my case, because no ids have been specified.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/

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