Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?
The EE option to ‘Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?’ found at CP Home › Admin › Weblog Administration › Weblog Management › Edit Weblog Preferences appears to be overridden by wygwam. Is there any way to undo this? Thanks!
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EMPLOYEE
1Can you try downloading the latest version of FieldFrame from GitHub? http://github.com/brandonkelly/bk.fie... -
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Hi Brandon
I have the latest versions yet this still happens. But it only seems to happen when using Internet Explorer. Tried it with Chrone and Safari and it dose not happen.
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Links are only automatically created in IE? That's impossible -- it's a backend thing; has nothing to do with the browser being used.
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Well... Maybe we are getting confused. I might of posted on the wrong support question.
If I open Safari and type in http://www.google.com into the wygwam field and push space or enter it is accepted as text. aka the text is not wrapped in < a > tags.
If I open IE and type the same text into the same field and press enter or space, in front of my eyes it is turned into a link aka the text is wrapped in < a > tags is applied.

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Ok, yes, that's something different. My guess is that this is just an IE "feature" that auto-links things that look like URLs and emails.
If you click the Source button, do you actually see the <a> tag? -
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Yes, that is what made me think it was wygwam. I just tested it in IE6, IE7 and IE8 and get the same issue on each.
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CKEditor must just be getting the source via innerHTML then. Try looking through IE's options -- there's probably a way to disable the auto-linking.
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I have the same problem as David but I'm using EE 2.0, and FieldFrame doesn't solve the problem of course. Any ideas Brandon?
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Hi Brandon,
I'm using this with my clients and all entries which had their links and emails autolinked are now just rendered as normal text. I do have autolinking turned on in the control panel. Is there something else that I need to do?
I am using EE2 the 20100810 build and latest Wygwam out.
Best,
Lea -
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There's probably something I need to do to get it working in EE2. I'll look into it.
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Ok, got this working in EE2. I'll probably release an update next week sometime, but for the time being, here's what changed: https://gist.github.com/ed557514407b7...
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Sweet, thanks Brandon. Won't be working on this until Monday any way. I just reverted the fields back to regular EE textarea for, but am excited to get my clients on WYGWAM.
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Just released Wygwam 2.1.2 with this fix.
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Am I overlooking something, or is this not working in EE1.6.9? I can manually create email links with the link button, but still not getting auto links from email addresses. Wygwam 2.1.2 + FieldFrame v.1.4.3. Creating these manually isn't that big of a deal, just wondering if it's my error.
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I only added it for EE2, since EE2 has a function that made it really easy.
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Indeed it looks like this does work for the EE2 branche but nor for EE1? Just to be sure, is that the case or is it unexpected behavior?
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It's expected behavior.
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EMPLOYEE
1Sorry, forgot to update this thread. Yes, I discovered that EE1 had a similar method for automatically doing this, so I added it to Wygwam 2.1.7. -
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Hello, I am using Wygwam 2.2.2 with EE 2.1.3 and auto-linking is not working. Any ideas?
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Hi David,
Are you getting any errors? Can you check your JavaScript console? What does the link look like when you click the Source button in Wygwam.
Thanks,
Brad -
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Hi Brad, just upgraded to 2.2.3 and nothing different.
If I type something like: www.yahoo.com
all I get in HTML is:
Opening the error console in Firefox 4 show no errors. Some warnings related to css:
Warning: Expected color but found 'auto'. Expected color but found '-webkit-focus-ring-color'. Expected end of value but found '-webkit-focus-ring-color'. Error in parsing value for 'outline'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://test.com/themes/third_party/wy...
Line: 102
Warning: Unknown property 'text-overflow'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://test.com/themes/third_party/wy...
Line: 78
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'background'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://test.com/themes/third_party/wy...
Line: 127
Warning: Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped.
Source File: http://test.com/themes/third_party/wy...
Line: 151-
Well, this forum is autolinking www.yahoo.com, but that is not happening here for me :)
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Hi David,
Are you using the "Link" button in Wygwam? Just typing a URL in main text area won't automatically create the hyperlink.
Thanks,
Brad -
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Just typing a URL in main text area won't automatically create the hyperlink.
I think this used to work pre-WYGWAM. I assumed from what I read that WYGWAM supported this? -
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BTW, am I supposed to enter the License Key I see on my downloads page at devot-ee.com into the respective field in EE? I didn't see that step in the install doc.
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OK, apparently automatic-linking only works with MSIE. Just verified with MSIE 9. More: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/7376
But, what about the license key? -
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BTW, there is about a 2-4 second additional delay when loading Wygwam in MSIE 9. Other browsers (Chrome & FF4) load the page very fast.
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Hi David,
Good to know on the CKEditor IE autolinking.
The additional IE delay is more than likely because of slower IE JavaScript parsing on CKEditor. If you go here in IE, do you see roughly the same delay? http://ckeditor.com/demo
Yes, the license you get from Devot-ee can be entered on the Wygwam module page.
Regards,
Brad -
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Brad, http://ckeditor.com/demo loads pretty darned quick in MSIE 9 for me.
Loading wygwam is considerable slower, to the point of being so annoying that I would never use MSIE were it not for the fact of the tremendous amount of time saved by auto-linkingURLs. Prob 2-4 seconds. You can actually see and read the HTML tags in the text area before Wygwam finishes loading.
The Control Panel in MSIE 9 is even a little off for the layout. CSS issues I imagine. If I put MSIE 9 in compatibility mode, most of the drop-down menus in Wygwam (like the font size button) cease to function. -
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Gotcha... going to update to IE9 now and do some testing.
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Do you have a large amount of fields on the publish page or is there a large amount of content in the Wygwam field? When I load ckeditor.com/demo or publish a new entry Wygwam loads on IE9 easily under 1/2 a second.
If you have the task manager open when you load the page, can you click on the performance tab and see if the CPU is spiking? -
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Maybe six fields on the main tab. 5181 characters in the text field. Just confirmed again that the delay is not problematic with Chrome. The page loads quickly overall, just that 2-4 xtra secs while Wygwam pops in.
This PC has 4 virtual CPUs, so its hard to note any spike when loading the page.
I disabled Gzipping the page in the admin, and that did not seem to make a difference.
EE Benchmarks look normal:
BENCHMARKS Loading Time: Base Classes 0.0153
Total Execution Time 0.3576
Controller Execution Time ( Content Publish / Entry Form ) 0.3443
This problem is somewhat similar to a problem I had with all browsers lagging a few seconds when loading EE CP. That was eventually traced to having "Generate HTTP Page Headers?" turned on. Just a thought.
This is not a show stopper for me, just an annoyance. Not a big fan of MSIE anyway.
You might want to see if other people are having the problem, and I am not a lone wolf.
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