By Ron Chandy on

Hello everyone

I have installed the module "TinyMCE" but when I work with it I do not get what I see. the entire formatting of the document becomes plain with no spaces no paragraphs etc. I do not understand why it is happning. would someone help please.

Ron

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arh1 commented

i believe you're saying that TinyMCE appears to work correctly when creating/editing a node (e.g. you can see/use the rich text editor), but after submitting the form, the content does not render the way you expect when viewing the node. that sounds like an input format and HTML filter issue to me.

be aware that TinyMCE may insert any number of HTML tags that Drupal's default Filtered HTML input format will promptly strip out when retrieving the node data from the db. (the Filtered HTML input format will also replace line breaks in your text with paragraph tags by default.) so you'll need a less restrictive input format. however, also be aware that the Full HTML and PHP input formats have inherent security risks, and should only be available to completely trusted users.

that said, the solution seems to be (as recommended in TinyMCE's readme file), to create a new input format that's specific to TinyMCE. (call it something like 'Rich text'.) enable the HTML filter for that input format, but add a bigger set of allowable HTML tags than those used by the FIltered HTML input format's HTML filter.

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Ron Chandy commented

I am going to try that out. Will post the out come. Thanks for the reply.

Ron

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Tinymce can be tricky to set up correctly. That's why the TinyMCE Automatic Configuration exists. Have a look at http://drupal.org/node/246311 for the D6 version

Alex Pott

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Ron Chandy commented

Thanks alexpott

That was useful. But I feel abit more comfortable with FCKeditor and have switched to that.

Thanks again