richtextediting

FCKeditor vs TinyMCE and XHTML Compliance

I'm after (short) opinions on FCKeditor vs TinyMCE and whether either or both are XHTML compliant. In the interest of keeping with the spirit of stackoverflow, if someone has already made your point, just upvote them. Thanks in advance. ...

How do I add rich text editing support to a web site?

I need some basic CMS functionality with rich text editing. On stack overflow there is a regular textarea edit control, with support for Markdown style syntax formatting. That would be beyond my users, so I want something like a rich edit control that you can type into on the web site. I know it is possible, as loads of sites do it, but ...

FreeTextBox tabs are not preserved at postback.

We are using the FreeTextBox 3.1.6 on an intranet. The control appears on an ASP.Net project built in Visual Studio 2008. When clients enter tabs in the text box, those tabs do not get preserved at postback. Rather, the tabs are lost. Other text formatting, like bold, italics, or font size are preserved. Even when the postback event...

YUI Editor: How to paste as plain text?

I implemented the Yahoo Rich Text Editor (YUI Editor) in a Rails application using the YUI_Editor Plugin. If I copy/paste text out of a PDF into a YUI-Editor-enhanced-TextArea (YEETA :)) it does not only copy the text but also the formatting of it. How do I configure the YUI Editor to remove all formatting of text pasted into the YEETA...

YUI Editor: <p> instead <br> on linebreak?

Hi How do I tell the YUI-Editor to enclose all text into <p></p> and use <p></p> instead of <br> if the user issues a linebreak? Here comes an example to illustrate what I'm trying to do: Instead of this: The quick brown fox<br>jumps over the lazy dog I would like to have this: <p><p>The quick brown fox</p><p>jumps over the lazy d...

What language should I use to create a simple text-formatting application online?

I want to make a page for a website that will let the user create a blog post, and want them to be able to graphically edit the formatting, like paragraphs and styles, then convert this to html. Is there a way to do it in PHP? Do I need to use Javascript or Ajax or something? ...

Rich Text Editor[WYSIWYG] with paging using javascript

Hi, Is it possible to implement paging similar to MS Word in a rich text editor using JavaScript. I need to implement an editor using JavaScript that contains text in pages. If i type text that exceeds the ficed limit of a page then automatically a new page is created and text overflows to the new page with formatting intact. Also if I ...

TinyMCE: Using CSS class attributes with the formatselect-dropdown formats.

I would like to customize the formats in the TinyMCE formatselect dropdown to support css class attributes. Example: If would like to be able to select <h2 class='foo'> instead of just <h2> as format in the formatselect dropdown. Does anyone here have an idea how I could do this? ...

TinyMCE: Customize style-names in styleselect-menu

Let's say I have a CSS class named foo but would like it to be shown as foo (1) in the TinyMCE styleselect-menu (one of the default buttons available in the advanced theme). I tried using the class_filter option to do this, but that doesn't seem to work. How would you solve this problem? ...

wxPython RichTextCtrl much slower than tkInter Text?

I've made a small tool that parses a chunk of text, does some simple processing (retrieves values from a dictionary, a few regex, etc.) and then spits the results. In order to make easier to read the results, I made two graphic ports, one with tkInter and other with wxPython, so the output is nicely displayed in a Text Area with some wo...

asp.net mvc and fckeditor

would like to use fckeditor or similar for building/editing webpages on the fly but there are a few other old questions where there are issues am looking for any recent experiences/alternatives ? thanks ...

All I want in a Rich Text Editor is bold, italic, and links. Is there anything out there?

I'm working on a small web application that will let users enter calendar events. For the description of the event, I would like them to be able to do the following: Set bold text Set italic text Create a link Absolutely nothing else For example, if someone tries to paste "Nasty Hot Pink Text" from Word, I don't want that to work the...

What WYSIWYG editing component should I use for in-browser editing?

I'm looking for a good, WYSIWYG editor that I can integrate into my web pages enabling my users to edit letters, legal agreements, etc. without requiring them to learn a new set of commands or syntax or going crazy trying to remove a table or resize an image. I have read the relate questions. And I have used probably most of the better ...

Ordered list in flex rich text editor control ?

The rich text editor in flex provides option for having a bullet list in the text but there is no option for a numbered list ( ordered list , that give 1,2,3... on each line) ? Is there any good example of customising the RTE in flex , please share. Also , the bullet list does not allow nesting. We cannot do nested lists like in work,...

Restricting enter keypress event in an IFrame, does not work

I have an IFrame within my page and am using the designMode="on" on this iframe for a small-level rich text editing. My concern is that I need not allow the user to enter new lines in it - meaning, I want to restrict enter keys. I did it using the question posted here to listen to the keypress events. But in my keypress event, if I ret...

IE exec command rich text editing

I'm tring to insert an image in a WYSIWYG editor, but I can't insert images in Internet Explorer(6/7), although it works fine within Firefox. It fails without throwing any errors. This is what I'm using: execCommand('insertImage', false, 'absolute/path/to/an/image'); ...

32x32 icons for rich text editor?

Does anybody know a open source/free, 32x32 or bigger, complete set of "office" icons for integration in a Rich Text editor - i.e. buttons like Copy Paste Text color Background color Bold / Italic / Underline ? ...

Removing resize handlers on contentEditable div

I created a contentEditable div to use as a rich textarea. It has resize handlers around it that I'd like to get rid of. Any idea how I'd do this? Edit: This appears to be happening because I am absolutely positioning the div, so Firefox adds an infuriating _moz_resize attribute to the element which I cannot turn off. ...

contentEditable cursor position/style in FireFox

I'm having trouble using contentEditable in FireFox 3. I have a problem where the cursor will appear above or only partially in the div after I click in it (until I start typing at which time it behaves correctly). Any ideas on how I can stop this from happening? HTML: <html> <head><title>Test Page</title></head> <body> <div...

Text editing best practices (with tags, etc.)

Hi there, I want to create a text field with some text, that is styled with tags. Think of MS Word, some ext is bold, some is a headline, etc. The tags that style the text are not visible to the user, he just sees the text in bold. How do I preserve these tags? I mean when I backspace over the closing bold-tag, for example, how do I pr...