Is there a textarea and or rich text editor (like FCKEditor) which allows the user to follow links (click them with the left mouse button) that render in them while entering?

Question

For example, the markdown editor in stackoverflow does not allow you to 'click' the links you add as your entering data into the editor. I would like to render a text area pre-populated with some links to lab results that the user can choose to review while making their comments.

Answer 1

Most HTML richtext don't do anything to the link (with the exception that you can place the cursor in them with a single left click, in order to edit their text) that would prevent you from, for instance, right-clicking to open the link, copy it, or whatever your browser allows.

Answer 2

TinyMCE allows you to preview within the same page and then click on any links with the click of a button/icon. I'm thinking there must be a way of triggering this outside of the TinyMCE and possibly having it populate another field/area. (You probably could also grab the value of the textarea and put that somewhere else on the page.)

Not sure if this is what you are looking for.

Answer 3

both tinyMCE and fck editor will highlight the links with blue color and if you ctrl+click on them, will open in a new tab/window (depends of you browser configuration)

Answer 4

Or you could try a preview mode, just like StackOverflow. See How can I enable live preview for FCKeditor in an ASP.Net site?