JCE Pro 2.7.18 -
How to prevent this? Although I checked relative URLs in the Editor Parameter, the JCE MediaBox-Popups produce always absolute paths for the links (to image in this case, didn't test video or other).
It is ok in backend:
<a class="jcepopup noicon" href="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images/...

but in frontend it is transformed to:
<a class="jcepopup noicon" href="https://...

Although it does not affect the functionality, for a specific reason I need relative paths here.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Thank you for the quick reply. Unfortunately I can't post a link, because it's password protected site in development. I tested it on remote and local development server. It really only occurs with JCE Mediabox PopUps - very strange. So I will have to investigate deeper, which plugin or component is responsible for this. In case of positive result I will let you know ...

So I investigated a little deeper and the result is, that it is THE BROWSER which converts the links to absolute paths! This is really weird - as soon as the a tag comes with class "jcepopup" or with "data-mediabox-" attributes, the links are written with "https://..." (or http on local system). The source code itself is not converted - of course you were right, Ryan. Source code to test this:

<p><a href="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images/relative-path-to-my-image.jpg">test</a></p>

<p><a class="jcepopup" href="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images/relative-path-to-my-image.jpg" data-mediabox="1" data-mediabox-width="1000" data-mediabox-title="title"><img src="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images//relative-path-to-my-image.jpg" alt="" />title</a></p>

In browser developer tool you can see the converted link (at least I can see it in my local and remote system, tested in Chrome and Firefox) of the jcepopup link (not the source path to the image, only the link path):

<p><a href="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images/relative-path-to-my-image.jpg">test</a></p>

<p><a class="jcepopup" href="https://www.my-brand-new-website.com/images/relative-path-to-my-image.jpg" data-mediabox="1" data-mediabox-width="1000" data-mediabox-title="title"><img src="https://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/images/images/relative-path-to-my-image.jpg" alt="" />title</a></p>

Strange, isn't it? The reason for my concern is that I beautify extern links with font icons with CSS which makes no sense for the JCE popup links ...

Perfect, Ryan, thanks! This version fixes the issue. 🙂