How do you insert forms into nodes using TinyMCE?

By smithaa02 on 18 Apr 2007 at 20:45 UTC

Basically, I want to insert a form into one of my pages that links to another website. When I edit the page using TinyMCE, and paste all the form information into the source, TinyMCE strips out the form tag and pretty much everything else.

Is there a way to get around this?

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Check your input format

geojaz commented 18 April 2007 at 20:48

It's probably not TinyMCE that's stripping it out- it's the input format. If you take a look under the input box, there will be a section called Input Format that you can click to open. It defaults to Filtered HTML, which would strip out all the goodies.

You want to change it to Full HTML for this purpose...

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smithaa02 commented 18 April 2007 at 21:48

Double checked that and my input format is definitely 'Full HTML'. Does the 'Full HTML' input format have a separate filtering setting that can be tweaked?

TinyMCE

styro commented 18 April 2007 at 22:01

does have it's own filtering etc - but I think (not sure though) you might need to be using the advanced theme (thats the TinyMCE theme not the Drupal theme) to get the detailed configuration options.

The readme that comes with the TinyMCE (Drupal) module explains how you can set TinyMCE parameters in your Drupal themes template.php file. You'll then need to look through the docs on the TinyMCE wiki to see what all the parameters do. There are options to allow extra HTML elements and attributes etc.

Although it is a lot more work to set up, I prefer to give all my users the advanced TinyMCE theme and heavily customise how TinyMCE behaves for each user role in my template.php. TinyMCE just annoys me too much in its default state.

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I have the same kind of

-hgn- commented 18 April 2007 at 22:15

I have the same kind of problem with TinyMCE messing up all the third party HMTL code. Is there any solution to that when I'm a non-programmer and I don't feel like editing the PHP files?

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Not really as far as I'm aware

styro commented 19 April 2007 at 00:17

But in my mind editing the template.php file in your theme is far preferable than editing the Javascript files that come with TinyMCE.

I also suspect that if someone created a GUI that could configure every available TinyMCE setting it could possibly be more complex and harder to use than figuring out how to edit a few files anyway.

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Yes, it's probably the input format...

Mel55113 commented 18 April 2007 at 23:19

but Full HTML probably isn't what you want. I'm pretty sure the TinyMCE doc recommends creating an input format that does NO filtering and calling it something like "Rich Text Editing." This is what you want to use when you want to allow anything to be used.

Hope this helps,
Mel

same problem

cgjohnson commented 19 April 2007 at 00:30

I have the same problem -- what I'd like to do is PERMANENTLY "disable rich text" in a few places. I can do that and save it fine, but if I og back in to edit it, it immediately reverts back to rich text and strips all the coding. This happens whether or not I use Full HTML or PHP input... it's frustrating.

Is there any way to set tinymce off for good in a node or two? or a better workaround that doesn't involve too much hacking?

thanks