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Our WhyDrupal? RSS feed just got published to the main Planet Drupal feed aggregator and it made me answer a question I've had for years - "How can I easily override the relative links in wysiwyg editor textareas and replace them automagically with absolute links?"

For the most part I usually try and use Drupal's Media module to embed images in posts but thats not always the easiest workflow for quickly throwing images into copy areas.... and its not a sustainable solution to use absolute links within nodes (say you have to move URLs one-day when you forget to renew your domain, or are moving from a development server to the live client-URL?)

Well, it appears that there's a super easy solution - just install the "Relative Path to Absolute URLs" module and then add the filter (shown below) to the specific input filter you're using (d7 = "Text Format") et voila, the problem is taken care of on the public/display side whilst not over-writing your relative urls within the site database ;)

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