feature request: clickable links in read-only editors

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

feature

What is the current behavior?

Links can’t be clicked in a read-only editor.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via fiddle.tinymce.com or similar.

http://fiddle.tinymce.com/4sgaab/1 It’s not a bug, but it’d make sense to have an option to make links work. Blocking clicks on links doesn’t really fit in with the general idea of inline editing. Hypertext should exhibit its usual behavior when the edit mode is off.

Which versions of TinyMCE, and which browser / OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of TinyMCE?

It sort of worked before 4.7.12 because a private API could be used: editor._clickBlocker.unbind(); However, that API has been refactored away in https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/commit/5d4e4d7c6f8ad722fd85c71405528e72a55ae5ab.

[lnewson]

@shashankmeyar I just tested and it’s working fine for me in 5.2.1. Note that it should not work by just clicking the link, you’ll need to “CTRL+click” or right click and open in a new tab. The reason being that clicking normally will navigate the user away from the content and potentially cause data to be lost, so we don’t plan to allow that behaviour.

If you can still reproduce it taking into account the above, then please log a new issue.

[TheSpyder]

It used to be possible to select text in readonly mode, until the fix for #4249 (which @thorn0 linked in his report). We are tracking a new fix for this and will update this ticket when it’s merged.