[Zope] HTML formatting from a text field

[Lee Hunter]

Hi Ausum,

Do you mean a text field that shows a row of formatting buttons at the top
for 'bold', 'italic' 'add link' etc.

There is an ActiveX control that is built in to IE Explorer 5.x - you just
have to call it from your page.

Here's the information from Microsoft:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/edit/ref/cncpt.asp

If you get it working with Zope (which shouldn't be a problem) let us know.

The Manila/Frontier CMS uses it as a default and it works well. It's very
handy when you have users who have basic word processor knowledge (i.e. they
know enough to select text first then click a formatting button) but can't
be trusted with hand coding html.

Cheers

Lee Hunter


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Ausum wrote:
> what I have in mind, wich is
> a sort of simple html editor within a text field. As I said before, the
> only place I've seen something like that is at Hotmail.
>