Re: FN-FORUM: Online editor using css classes?

date posted 14th May 2004 15:24

At 15:26 on Friday, 14 May 2004, Kalagoo.Com wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Hope I explain this ok. I'm in the middle of putting together a bespoke
> CMS
> for a client running a CSS tableless designed site. I need to give the
> client the functionality of editing his page content using one of those
> browser-based html editors (typically IE specific but thats fine)
> however I
> want to avoid letting the client mess up my design by using the standard
> html tags, picking fonts, coloUrs, inserting tables etc. I've searched
> and
> searched but cannot find an online code editor that will support the CSS
> coding requirements. Is anyone familiar with such a system that would
> allow
> me to set-up a predefined set of stylesheet classes that the client can
> choose from when 'designing' his pages? - that way the content would
> remain
> stnadards compliant. It doesnt have to be very flashy.
>
> Any pointers would be appreciated

htmlArea seems to allow pretty much full control over what gets output
from the input (so to speak)

if that's no good why not rerstrict editing to plain vanilla with a form
of your own and only allow certain codes - of your choice to be used for
text formatting?