Tiny MCE - set full-screen when editor is loaded?

Question

I use tiny_mce as word-like editor in textareas that are in iframes. I want to use whole iframe space. TinyMCE has a fullscreen button, but I need to set full-screen mode automatically when plugin has loaded. Is there a function/trigger to call this mode (or the button)? Thanks for help.

Answer 1

In the IFRAME document you can instruct TinyMCE to switch to fullscreen mode once the textarea has initialized. The following code will need to go into your IFRAME:

<script type="text/javascript">
tinyMCE.init({
    mode : "exact",
    elements : "description",  // This is the id of the textarea
    plugins : "fullscreen",
    theme : "advanced",
    theme_advanced_buttons1 : "fullscreen,code",
    theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
    theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
    oninit : function() {  // Once initialized, tell the editor to go fullscreen
        tinyMCE.get('description').execCommand('mceFullScreen');
    }
});
</script>

....

<textarea id="description"></textarea>

The TinyMCE fullscreen plugin will fill up the current window - and, since the IFRAME is it's own window, the this should fill the IFRAME.

Edit: This technique can also be used with the TinyMCE JQuery library. The options are the same but the invocation syntax is a little different. Again, the key lines are the oninit callback:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#description').tinymce({   // "description" is the id of the TEXTAREA
        // ... same options inserted here ...
        oninit : function() {
            tinyMCE.get('description').execCommand('mceFullScreen');
        }
    });
});