By mikerouse on

Hello forum,

I manage a couple of Drupal sites on the same server. One of them at http://www.forwardtogether.co.uk/ has been able to make use of the FCKEditor. However, an install under http://www.ybf.org.uk/ is not able to make use of any WYSIWYG editor. I have tried FCKEditor, HTMLArea, and nicEdit.

When I enable the modules and follow the instructions everything seems to install perfectly fine. However, when we actually try to post a node the WYSIWYG editors never load. With FCKEditor I tried using the ability to launch in a new window. It loads the popup and I enter text, but when I click OK, the text is not magicaly transported into the Body textarea.

Can anybody help with this weird little problem?

Thanks in advance,

Mike Rouse

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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mikerouse commented

When I switch the admin theme to something else like Garland the WYSIWYG editor works, but when I use our theme, which is based on terrafirma_theme it does not. I therefore imagine that there is a fault somewhere in the theme's files. Does anybody have any experience of this?

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Vahrokh commented

If the issue happens with a non default theme, you may want and contact the theme author(s).

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mikerouse commented

I am attempting to get in touch. In the meantime, if anybody has any suggestions on how I can progress a diagnosis and fix I would really appreciate it. I am willing to pay for private consultation to get this fixed. Thanks.

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mikerouse commented

Any practical advice on this subject would be appreciated. I have had a look at all the template files and compared them to Garland, but cannot notice anything different that would cause this, so far as my knowledge allows.

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vm commented

inspect your page.tpl for
print $scripts in the HEAD

& toward the bottom
print $closure

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GB9waR2F commented

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Same issue. I cannot get any WYSIWYG editor to work. [Drupal 6]

Specifically, although I can get the toolbars of certain editors to display (FCKEditor, TinyMCE), they have no discernable effect.

The site is behaving normally in other respects.
Maybe the formatting is taking place but Drupal is stripping it out before display.
I would be grateful for suggestions on how to pinpoint where along the way things are going wrong.

I've tried FCKEditor and TinyMCE both free-standing and under WYSIWYG. I've also tried TinyTinyMCE (which doesn't seem to produce a toolbar), Whizzywig and YUIEditor (can't even get it to install).

Permissions are set, input formats tailored to roles, tinymce code put where specified in the case of TinyMCE.
I tried adding permitted html to the html formats, tho' not sure why that would be needed.

I tried changing themes to Garland, to see if Bluemarine for some reason doesn't play nicely with editors; same result.

print $scripts and print $closure are present and accounted for in page.tpl.php
(thank you for pointing that out)

I've tried so much that I'm losing track of what I've tried. Have consulted videos & handbooks; their authors do not seem to inhabit the bizarro world where I currently find myself.

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yafuka commented

I was having same problem. I have created a custom template for my website and FCKeditor was not working. Then I came across this post and noticed I didn't have

<?php print $closure; ?>

in my page.tpl.php file. After adding it to file (before </body> tag), and clearing cached data under /admin/settings/performance I was able to fix the issue.

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Adam S commented

I had a problem like this yesterday. Here is how I solved it. http://drupal.org/node/446608#comment-2290210

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sumaiyajaved commented

thanks .. the solution was so simple :)

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Sumaiya Javed
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