TextArea

[Amit Varia]

I am making a simple blog, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions
on making a wysiwyg editor. I want to try and make it as much cross platform
as possible.

My current thoughts are gearing towards a textarea that isn't wysiwg but
similar to b2's textarea where tags are added via buttons.

What are your suggestions out there?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:51 -0600, "Amit Varia" <spam@amitvaria.com>
wrote:

>I am making a simple blog, and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions
>on making a wysiwyg editor. I want to try and make it as much cross platform
>as possible.
>
>My current thoughts are gearing towards a textarea that isn't wysiwg but
>similar to b2's textarea where tags are added via buttons.
>
>What are your suggestions out there?

The best I have seen works with IE 5.5+ only (though there is a plugin
that will make it work with Mozilla/Netscape). Check out:
[url]http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/[/url]

[Amit Varia]

I used that that before, and liked it, but was hoping to have something more
cross platform. And now I am beging to think that if I want something to be
really cross platform I am going to have to go with my second idea of a
textarea where you can add tags from menu. I doubt the WYSIWYG edior is
going to be possible.

"Tyrone Slothrop" <ts@paranoids.com> wrote in message
news:jirk00lv5j5iv2bfrnqqp8o0t22b8u9s7d@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 01:41:51 -0600, "Amit Varia" <spam@amitvaria.com>
> wrote:
>

> >I am making a simple blog, and was wondering if anyone had any

suggestions

> >on making a wysiwyg editor. I want to try and make it as much cross

platform

> >as possible.
> >
> >My current thoughts are gearing towards a textarea that isn't wysiwg but
> >similar to b2's textarea where tags are added via buttons.
> >
> >What are your suggestions out there?

>
> The best I have seen works with IE 5.5+ only (though there is a plugin
> that will make it work with Mozilla/Netscape). Check out:
> [url]http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/[/url]
>
>

[Barnabas Yohannes]

Is it possible to create a TextArea Item Template inside a datagrid? If so, how?

[Scott Mitchell [MVP]]

> Is it possible to create a TextArea Item Template inside a datagrid? If
so, how?

Sure.

<aspataGrid ...>
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateColumn>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:TextBox runat="server" TextMode="Multiline"
Text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem,
"SomeColumnName") %>'></asp:TextBox>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>
</aspataGrid>

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[thephantom6969]

Is there anyway to have different colors, fonttypes, bold, etc. in the text in
a text area? I have done it with using the html tag, but it would seem logical
that one should be able do this in a normal flex textarea.

Thanks

[slaingod]

Not sure exactly what you mean, but textarea has an htmlText property that can
work with a subset of html-ish tags. Otherwise, if you are talking about
editing, then you should take a look at the RichTextEditor component.

[thephantom6969]

Lets say I have some text in the text area. Can I change the color of one word in the text area or could I underline a word?

[slaingod]

You should be able to do that by setting the htmlText as mentioned. If you
meant for the user to be allowed to edit the text, you would be better off
using RichTExtEditor and hiding the control bars for instance, as I imagine as
soon as the user edited the TextArea you might lose the underlines, tho I'm not
sure.

If for some reason you absolutely have to use TextArea, then you can probably
accomplish what you want by detecting the change event on the TextArea and
reapplying the formatting as needed.

Say you are writing a word processor with dictionary underlining for
misspelled words: You would allow the user to type their text, and then after
each letter typed, you could look for changes and apply the underline as
needed. But using RichTextEditor seems like it would be a lot easier.