How to remove protocols from link dialog (ckeditor)

Question

I want to remove the option for the "other" dialog in ckeditor (links -> protocol).

It's confusing for the user; they don't specify a protocol, then the link looks for a file on my server (instead of an external link, confusing the user).

I tried removing the "other" option from link.js, but that didn't work (still shows up). If I remove it from the language files, I get "undefined" instead of other. I've tried searching for everything like "ckeditor remove link protocol" without luck.

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

I found the solution - by making changes to the config.js file. (I always look for hours, finally decide to ask SO, then get a new idea and find the solution only a bit later >< )

CKEDITOR.on( 'dialogDefinition', function( ev )
{
    // Take the dialog name and its definition from the event data.
    var dialogName = ev.data.name;
    var dialogDefinition = ev.data.definition;

    // Check if the definition is from the dialog we're
    // interested in (the 'link' dialog).
    if ( dialogName == 'link' )
    {
        dialogDefinition.getContents('info').get('protocol')['items'].splice(4, 1);

This part is somewhat well documented. Google search for "removing dropdown options" was more succesful.

dialogDefinition.getContents() gets the tab

get('protocol') gets the input item

['items'].splice(4, 1) gets the item property of the object returned above, and removes the last element from the list (I think I could use pop but whatever). So there's nolonger the other option.