I'm running Drupal 4.5.2 on my host's Apache 1.3 server. FCKeditor works wonderfully on FireFox 1.0 on my W2K box. Very cool.

But when I test with IE 5.0, the editor just does not appear in the text boxes. So, old IE anyway, nobody should use those old virus traps.

So I test with IE 6.0 SP1, all updated with M$ patches. The FCK text boxes clearly are instantiated (they are much larger on my setup than the vanilla text boxes), but none of the controls are visible! Curiously, italics and bold text can be turned on and off with Ctl-i and Ctl-b, so obviously the FCKeditor code is hooked up with the broswer. But whoa, those great control icons are not seen!

You can take a look if you wish, at ffministers.org/pastors, user Test, password test.

This Drupal install is for a community of computer users with just basic level skills, so I really need to offer them the rich editing controls of FCKeditor, and I don't think I'll have the option of getting them all two switch to Firefox.

TIA for any insight or tips.

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Anonymous’s picture

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I got the same problem.

I just move the lib folder to root folder. and set the base_path to "/"
then it work in IE and FireFox

tejaswi.manjunath@tejas.in’s picture

tejaswi.manjunath@tejas.in commented
Title: FCKeditor works in Firefox but not IE » FCKeditor works in IE but not in Firefox ~~~~

weird...

so my problem is the other way around....

i have the newest IE and firefox, haven't yet tried Opera or Safari !!!

any help is appreciated

Kurt Maute’s picture

Kurt Maute commented

Well, if your problem was similar to mine, it wouldn't load in IE, but would in Firefox.

The trouble was that in fckconfig.js I removed the last entry in the default toolbarset,
which was the ['About'] line. That left a trailing comma on the previous line which FF didn't have a problem with, but IE did. Once I removed the trailing comma, all was well in both browsers.

... so if you're having similar problems and you've customized your fckconfig.js, I suggest loading the stock config file and testing with that. If it works, check your punctuation and syntax in your custom config.

Hope this helps!

dude4linux’s picture

dude4linux commented
Version: » 4.6.x-1.x-dev
Category: support » feature
Priority: Critical » Normal

I discovered similar behavior on a fresh install of FCKeditor-2.0fc on Drupal 4.6.2. After trying to track down the cause in the support forums, I discovered almost by accident that the failure of FCKeditor in IE was caused by setting the text area height (in administer >> settings >> fckeditor) to a percentage rather than a fixed size. Firefox will accept the height as 100%, but in IE the entire text area disappears.

ontwerpwerk’s picture

ontwerpwerk commented
Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

this is most likely a support question and not a bug in fckeditor