By wcrowshaw@yahoo.com on

So I've seen the HTML Area module which allows text-fields to accept html input, but AFAIK I don't see an html editor built into drupal for helping users edit their posts. It seems like a good idea for a module (I'd rather not see it built into drupal). Has anyone worked on one?

Testing out e107 I noticed that it had one built in which it borrowed from interactivetools.com. Its written in javascript and released under the BSD license, and therefore fodder for drupal. Here's the link if anyone is interested. http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/

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jonbob commented

I'm confused. You say you've seen the HTML Area module, and then you request the very same thing. The HTML Area module is based on the product you mention. I think there are bugs to fix still (especially cross-browser compatibility). I guess I don't understand what you're asking.

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wcrowshaw@yahoo.com commented

Problem was that I installed it wrong, doh.




But now I have encountered different problems which to summarize: it's a bit whacky. At first, the editor never showed up on the story body fields, although it showed up on the footer and mission statement fields. Next, the htmlarea configuration under "Site configuration" slowly keep adding areas that it would enable the htmlarea module. At first it was only the footer and mission statement fields and story fields that were enabled, but again then, as I said, the editor on the body field didn't work. Then it added a few nodes. Finally, I had to disable the fields and then renabled them to get everything running.

Oh, but now wait, I just discovered that I can't even edit anything in the text field. My browser, Mozilla's Firebird, won't let me tab to the body field. Great! ;) I guess this module is beta, right?


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cel4145 commented

I tried the module, too. Seemed to work fairly well in Mozilla 1.4, but problems with Firebird. I would guess that this could be an issue with Firebird and not the module, given the beta status of the browser. I use Firebird everyday, but it is not without it's quirks.

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jonbob commented

The module is far from finished, I think. As to the behavior of the admin page adding fields slowly, this is because the module doesn't know all text areas that it can manage until it sees them for the first time. After you view a page that has a text area, that text area can be WYSIWYG-enabled in the admin. This is the way locale.module works too. In this way even text areas added by third-party modules can be handled.