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Topic: Rich Text Editor Display from Database

Posted By: jonance
Subject: Rich Text Editor Display from Database
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 4:43am

Hi,

I have finally figured out how to display the html that I have programmed the rich text editor to save to my database. But i want to have the ability to allow a client to update this info. But when i populate the text box...i see the html CODE instead of the WYSIWYG. I want to have them be able to see it like they would if they had just created it...in WYSIWYG mode. Is this possible. what do i need to change to get this result?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 10:53am

The WYSIWYG editor uses the file textbox.asp as the text area, you need to place the HTML into this file as if it where a nromal HTML page.

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Posted By: jonance
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 11:28am

I have done this and can get the html code to come up as the initial value in the box....but i can't get it to show as a web page would (WYSIWYG) style. It shows all the tags. For instance instead of seeing <strong>test</strong> i want them to see just test already bolded and in WYSIWYG format. I want the pics to actually show, not the html to display them. Is this possible?

Thanks,
John

Posted By: jonance
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 11:31am

By the way...it seems to do just that when i put html directly in the textbox.asp file. But when i have it pull the html from my database (which is what i need to do), it shows in the RTE as pure html and doesn't apply the tags...

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 11:46am

Not sure what you are doing, but you are doing something wrong.

Maybe a link to have a look would help.

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 12 November 2004 at 1:00pm

how are your values stored in the database? Are they stored as example <strong>yourtext</strong> ??
If that is the case the rte will not display it, you would need to htmldecode it before displaying...

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