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NC Beach Bum
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August 5, 2013
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<cftextarea> Richtext not working

  • August 5, 2013
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Using ColdFusion 10.   I setup a <cftextarea> with richtext="yes" the correct code for the richtext toolbar.   The screen works on my PC in IE, Chrome, and Firefox.   In a demo for my dozen testers I could not find a single screen where this <cftextarea> with richtext="yes" that it worked on.  The text area was may an inch.   I did some digging and found issues folks logged from CF 8 but nothing new so I was thiking this was a bug but now in Version 10 it's been taken care of.   Also found a reference putting in the "AjaxOnLoad" command which I tried by placing the command after the closing </body> and before closing </html>.   I have tried IE 9 and IE 10 and Chrome but as far as users go it's not working. 

Thanks!

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clifj49030817
clifj49030817
Participant
June 5, 2017

This solution worked for me, and in my opinion is cleaner than relying on the outdated version of CKEditor shipped with ACF.

Inside the head tag, before everything but the title tag, add:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7">

<script src="https://cdn.ckeditor.com/4.7.0/standard/ckeditor.js"></script>

Next replace cftextarea with the following:

<textarea name="yourFieldName" id="editor1" cols="10" rows="80"></textarea>

<script>CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1', { toolbar: 'Basic' });</script>

I had to set the compatibility tag to "IE=10" on one page using a frameset, but otherwise encountered no other issues.

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berniemiller
Inspiring
February 13, 2017

In my experience this is always related to the Compatibility View setting. In IE make sure "Show Intranet sites in Compatibility view" is unchecked. This may also be controlled with a meta tag or an IIS custom header so look for those as well.

X-UA-Compatible reference

BKBK
Community Expert
BKBKCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 8, 2013

Remove the HTML tags, namely, <html>, <body>, etc. Does cftextarea then work as you expect?

vishu_13
vishu_13
Inspiring
August 5, 2013

Hi

You mentioned that it is working fine in your machine?

Test the code mentioned below in different browsers during development

<cfform>

<cftextarea name="broadcastContent"   enabled="Yes" toolbar="Basic" toolbarOnFocus="No" visible="Yes" style="height:200px; width:1500px;" skin="silver"  richtext="Yes">  This is a textarea. </cftextarea>         

                                                                 

</cfform>

If this did not work, then go to : C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\scripts\ajax\FCKeditor, open fckeditor.js (first take a backup of this file)

Change the value in line 307  with this

var sBrowserVersion = navigator.appVersion.match(/MSIE ([\d.]+)/)[1] ;

Restart ColdFusion 10 service and then test the behavior.

Thanks

VJ

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