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15Jan/090

Styling input elements based on type without breaking IE6

Imagine that you could style all input types without manually adding a class to each input element. And do it without breaking the design for older browsers like IE6. Here is how...

6Feb/080

Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor

Most developers at some point needs to construct a WYSIWYG [What You See Is What You Get] textarea for customers that aren't familiar with HTML.

Internet Explorer provides such an editor just by adding the shorthand attribute contenteditable to a div tag but this is considered an ugly approach which is for internet-explorer only, and non-standard, and often people are forced to use "forumcode" or to give up.

A long time ago I though it must be possible to write a javascript WYSIWYG editor but it was never more than an idea.

It seems someone has realized that idea, and made /very/ easy embeddable editor. There are a few out there, but the ones I know of are:

FCKeditor
[www.fckeditor.com] - - Very complete WYSIWYG editor with support for forms which is sometimes needed for a CMS.
tinyMCE
[tinymce.moxiecode.com] - As the name states - a tiny editor, very compact and a bit faster to load than FCKeditor
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