How can I give users a simple html editor

Report · Jan 15, 2011

I want my users to be able to edit an SQL text field and give them a wysiwyg editor - then have it displayed properly in a browser - just like the area I'm typing in to make this post.

I noticed there was a rich text option in a cftextarea tag, but I need html.

Can someone tell me how this site works or an alternative that I can use?

Report · Jan 15, 2011

Looking @ the mark-up of this page, it looks like they're using TinyMCE as the text editor.

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Adam

Report · Jan 15, 2011

I believe the rich text editor with cftextarea will work for me.

Does anyone know how to display rich text content in a browser (and it look like it does in the control)?

In Response To RichieWhite · Jan 15, 2011

RichieWhite wrote:
I believe the rich text editor with cftextarea will work for me.
Does anyone know how to display rich text content in a browser (and it look like it does in the control)?

From the documentation on richText:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>
<body>

<cfif isdefined("form.richtext01") AND (form.richtext01 NEQ "")>
    <cfoutput>#form.richtext01#</cfoutput><br />
</cfif>


<cfform name="form01">
    <cftextarea richtext="true" name="richtext01" basepath="/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/FCKEditor" />
    <cfinput type="submit" value="Enter" name="submit01">
</cfform>
</body>
</html>

In Response To BKBK · Jan 15, 2011

I thought I tried that.

Thanks a lot!!

Report · Jan 15, 2011

The richtext option creates an HTML editor. So once you've saved that to the database, just output to the browser like any other text:

#yourBigTextField#

</cfoutput>

How can I give users a simple html editor

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