Okay, I think I found a workaround that should work for most things, although, as the SCIENTIST said, you can't do all HTML codes.

In \includes\RTE_setup.asp change

Const blnHTMLView = false

to

Const blnHTMLView = true

and then in \includes\RTE_toolbar_2.asp change

If blnHTMLView Then Response.Write(vbCrLf & "      <img src=""" & strImagePath & "post_button_html.gif"" align=""absmiddle"" border=""0"" title=""" & strTxtToggleHTMLView & """ onClick=""HTMLview()"" style=""cursor: pointer;"">")

to

'********** MOD *********** IF blnAdmin THEN  If blnHTMLView Then Response.Write(vbCrLf & "      <img src=""" & strImagePath & "post_button_html.gif"" align=""absmiddle"" border=""0"" title=""" & strTxtToggleHTMLView & """ onClick=""HTMLview()"" style=""cursor: pointer;"">") END IF '********** MOD ***********

This will make it so that only the Admin can use the HTML View.

Note: DO NOT SAVE THE POST WHEN VIEWING IN HTML!!!

Make sure you switch back to WYSIWYG mode before you save it.  Otherwise it will convert your > and < to &gt; and &lt; and you will display code instead of the end result.  That was why I was having problems before.  I didn't know that.  Although, I guess if you WANT to post the code as code, it is a simple way to do so.

I'm glad I figured this out.  I was banging my head against the wall earlier trying to figure out how to fix the problems I was having.

I tried the RTE html mode before but for some reason it converted all the brackets to &gt; and &lt; instead of preserving the html, so I stopped fiddling with it.  I'm not sure what I was doing wrong, but the RTE html mode didn't work for me or at least it didn't work as expected.

I need to edit the html directly to override the RTE's default handling of certain things for certain posts.  For example:

• Text does not wrap around images* (when using the Image Upload botton).
• There is no way to remove the font size=x tags once they are embedded into the post when using the RTE.  This means that it is impossible to revert back to the default font size in the CSS if it doesn't happen to be exactly the same as one of the size=x sizes.
• The Admin can't put any html code that is prohibited by the forum software, but may be useful to insert.

I've been looking through the code to see if I can find a place (or places) that I could insert an IF THEN statement that turns off HTML stripping for Admins, but the code looks too complicated for such a simple manuever.  But I don't fully understand how the RTE is implemented, so I may be missing something really simple.

*Edit: I forgot to mention that it only does that when using the Insert Image via Upload button, not the Insert Image using a URL button.  The Insert Image via URL button allows you to select an alignment that will wrap the text, which appears to be missing from the Image Upload dialog box. 

You can do most basic formating with forum codes that are then parsed to HTML, however not all HTML is supported, but you could use the RTE HTML mode for that I guess, or create/alter the message form with a condition check for admin and allow edit/update of HTML.

I will fidle with it a bit to see what can be done.

The security risks that come with allowing the general public to use full blown HTML tags are evident "but" why not allow Administrators? Or is this already doable?

-sanci-