By Swooperz on

I am using Drupal 4.7.3 and the latest TinyMCE for Drupal 4.7. The core for TinyMCE is 2.02.

The problem is that TinyMCE works fine in Firefox but not at all in IE. Go figure! ;)

Anyway, more specifically, In IE, I don't see "Enable Rich Text" OR the toolbar. It's as though no editor has been installed at all. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Alan

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desm0n commented

I have it working in both browsers although IE does bring some odd little quirks with the editor.

So this leads me to believe that you are generally a firefox user and are logged in to your drupal site in firefox under the admin profile and not in IE. If this is correct you'll need to set up the access permissions in the access control specifically tinymce module, access tinymce.

Hopefully i'm not barking up the wrong tree here. If i am, i do apologise.

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Swooperz commented

I have given permissions under access control for admin and another role I created called super user, and have done this all under Firefox.

I then log out of Firefox (FF), then log in as myself (admin role) using Internet Explorer (IE).

Then I go back to the same post or any other post, click the Edit tab and I get nothing in IE. No blank area where it should be and no JS error that would be indicated by a Yield Sign icon in lower left of IE.

If I go back into FF and perform the same things, everything works prefectly. This is SO backwards! :-/

Are you saying that I should try to "re-set/establish" the access control permissions and such under IE so that it would work under IE, too? That would be a major bug and really bizarre, but I'll try it. ;)

Thx,
Alan

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Swooperz commented

I tried this on my laptop using IE and got a couple of javascript errors.

They are:
Line: 283
Char: 67
Error: 'TinyMCE_Menu' is undefined.

and

Line: 44
Char: 2
Error: 'TinyMCE_Engine' is undefined.

Interesting! Any ideas?

I am not sure which file to look for these lines (.module?, .js?, .php?, drupal core files?...), but will start with the .module file first and see what I can find....

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Swooperz commented

I found the error for the mce_engine reference, which was coming from the compressor gzip.php file. I just reversed the isloaded check and it worked. Then I looked at another site of mine with TinyMCE v1.66, Dated 1/13/2006 and just copied all of its files over and got rid of both errors. So, I am unsure if there is an issue with the 4.7.0 TinyMCE Editor, but I know that the above referenced version works prefectly with Drupal 4.7.3 (er, mostly perfect. Had a problem with Settings/Buttons&Plugins: Button Images don't load when using Clean Url's. I created an Issue Ticket for that.)

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Swooperz commented

So, I found out what was causing the JS error that says "TinyMCE_menu is not defined." It's related to the enabling of the spellchecker plugin. As soon as I disable it the error goes away. The reason it went away earlier when I copied over an older version is because the spellchecker was not listed in the plugin_reg.php file yet. As soon as I added it, I got that error again.

Anyone have an idea what is going on with this?

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thaing commented

The problem I had:
I would be able to insert image using TinyMCE in FireFox but not in IE.
A javascript error display at the status bar and yet not very helpful at all.

After disabled the spellchecker option in TinyMCE the problem went away. :-)

Thanks to Swooperz!

__(?)__

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Swooperz commented

Hey THAING,

Glad that helped you get past that JS error in IE. Hopefully they will address the spellchecker issue eventually, but there are other spellcheckers that you can use in the meantime.

Best of Luck,

Alan
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Willdex commented

My IE shows the Insert Image Screen [{$lang_insert_image_title}], but my FireFox does not - it just shows a blank screen. Take a look, www.studentblock.com/files/pix/tinymce_ieff_error.jpg.

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Willdex commented

Anybody has any idea? Can you see the picture? Please...
Update: thanks for the numerous responses! I got it: if you have AdBlock Plus, like I do, disable the program for your page/site.

--Billy | Major: Accounting | CityTech@CUNY | Student Block.

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kimtd commented

An interesting discovery:

http://www.freshsupercool.com/2008/03/18/why-tinymce-displays-in-firefox...