By kozmoz

July 12, 2004

Introduction to HTMLArea

HTMLArea is a free customizable online editor. It works inside your browser. It uses a non-standard feature implemented in Internet Explorer 5.5 or better for Windows and Mozilla 1.3 or better (any platform), therefore it will only work in one of these browsers.

HTMLArea is copyright InteractiveTools.com and Dynarch.com and it is released under a BSD-style license. HTMLArea is created and developed upto version 2.03 by InteractiveTools.com. Version 3.0 developed by Mihai Bazon for InteractiveTools. It contains code sponsored by third-party companies as well.

This document describes how to replace the Xed WYSIWYG editor in the Sitellite CMS framework with the more advanced and feature rich HTMLArea editor mentioned above.

Get HTMLArea

I used the CVS version of HtmlArea. Date July, 11th 2004.

This project's SourceForge.net CVS repository can be checked out through anonymous (pserver) CVS with the following instruction set.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/itools-htmlarea login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/itools-htmlarea co htmlarea

When prompted for a password for anonymous, simply press the Enter key.

Transfer all the HTMLArea files from your local computer into the /htmlarea/ folder on your website.

Open the example page /htmlarea/examples/core.html with your browser to make sure everything works.

Once HTMLArea is on your website all you need to do is add some JavaScript to any pages that you want to add WYSIWYG editors to. Here's how to do that.

Page 1: Introduction to HTMLArea
Page 2: Replace Xed with HTML textarea
Page 3: HTMLArea configuration and troubleshooting

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