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Posted by nikisanders on June 30, 2009 at 1:58pm

Hello, all!
Some how I managed to put together a site that comes fairly close to what I originally wanted to build so thus far I am happy.
However the last real outstanding problem is text input.

At the moment I am using htmlarea module but users on my site are starting to complain that it doesn't format the text properly and that they haven't a clue how to insert images etc. Part of this is my fault for not explaining in more detail on my site about the software, but part of it is actually because modules like htmlarea are still incomplete and have browser compatibility issues and for the average user are just not basic enough.

What I would be interested to know is whether there are any simple wysiwyg text editor's in the pipelines and if so will they be able to deal with inserting images too?

thanks,
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Posted by kettifarrel on June 30, 2009 at 2:05pm

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Try FCKeditor[1] or the quicktags[2] module, but I don't think either of them have image insertion.

Thanks!

Try FCKEditor

Posted by anishvinoj on June 30, 2009 at 2:06pm

Try fckeditor , Follow the steps in http://drupal.org/node/225817

It is one of the best editor to do all our works

you can download it from http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor

Anish

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Posted by nikisanders on July 1, 2009 at 12:29pm

Doesn't look much different than HTMLArea to me, just smaller (in terms of features). Note, you can turn off the buttons you don't want in HTMLArea, so if your goal is to get rid of some of the unwanted features, that is possible. Since I don't have HTMLArea installed at the moment you'll have to look for that yourself.
There are dozens of other Javascript editors that do just about the same thing, as well as a handful of Java Applets. The last time I did a thorough review of the field (about two years ago), HTML Area was by far the best in its field.
Thanks!

You can try FCKeditor[1] for

Posted by GowardWolowits on July 8, 2009 at 8:08am

You can try FCKeditor[1] for Drupal or the quicktags[2] module, but I don't think either of them have image insertion.

My solution has always been that users are better off not editing their text. I turn the line break filter on so that the paragraphs can be seen. I install the url filter[3] so that people's URLs get parsed, and I install img_assist[4] which allows users to insert images that are found in the image galleries. I'm not claiming this is ideal, but the HTML Area is too heavy for me. It is brilliant programming, both the HTMLArea project itself and its integration into Drupal, but I don't like it.