TinyMCE Editor is stripping out empty href attribute

Question

I am working with TinyMCE but I notice that the editor is stripping out the href attribute if is empty. I want this:

<a href="">some text</a>

But the editor removes the href attribute and this is the unwanted result:

<a>some text</a>

I tried using this parameters in the init function:

cleanup: false,
verify_html: false,
allow_script_urls: true,
valid_elements: '*[*]',

But I am still not having good luck.

Someone can help me please?

Answer 1

Try this:

convert_urls: false,
remove_script_host: false,
verify_html: false,
valid_children: "+a[div|h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6|p|#text]",

Answer 2

Is there a reason why you don't want to use <a href="#">Some text</a> ?