how to prevent automatically adding mailto attribute

Question

When I write an email address (test@test.com) tinymce automatically adds a mailto link :

<a href="mailto:test@test.com">test@test.com</ a>

Is there a way to remove this feature and keep it only for site addresses - for example - www.test.com.

Answer 1

What you are seeing is due to the autolink plugin. You can set the regex that the plugin should use for matching links by using the autolink_pattern setting.

The default value for this setting (as of TinyMCE 4.6.5) is:

var AutoLinkPattern = 
/^(https?:\/\/|ssh:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|file:\/|www\.|(?:mailto:)?[A-Z0-9._%+\-]+@)(.+)$/i;

(you can see this in the source code for the autolink plugin).

Try putting this in your configuration:

tinymce.init({
  selector: '#mytextarea'
  ...
  ...
  autolink_pattern: /^(https?:\/\/|ssh:\/\/|ftp:\/\/|file:\/|www\.)(.+)$/i,
});

In my testing this still converts URLs but does not convert email addresses.