Wysiwyg

This is the working group to discuss and coordinate the integration of client-side editors in Drupal core.

Developers and maintainers of client-side editors (aka. WYSIWYG) integration modules and other interested people are invited to join in and share their ideas and participate in the current efforts to build a Wysiwyg API that seamlessly integrates with Drupal core.

More information on the current status of the module can be found on the Wysiwyg project page.

Live discussions on development and support happen in #drupal-wysiwyg.

The current status, progress, and roadmap of all efforts are summarized on a special page:

Roadmap

Current State for Flash (SWF and FLV)

Posted by jgarbe on December 31, 2009 at 2:59pm

Running on something like 10 hours trying to figure this out...I'd appreciate if some people could weigh in and we could give a current state-of-the-art in terms of process or strategy for embedding both Flash SWFs and FLVs inline for nodes. I'll try and compile the info into this post as it's laid out.

Syntax Highlighting in your editor. Anyone know of any examples?

Posted by R.J. Steinert on December 16, 2009 at 5:25am

I've looked high and low for web based text editor with syntax highlighting and have not found it yet. SmartMarkUp has screenshots with syntax highlighting but I don't think it actually has that feature. I'm hoping someone come up with a script to do this for MarkItUp. Looking at web based IDEs like Mozilla's Bespin gives me hope.

no image upload button in ckeditor using wysiwyg, imce & imce wysiwyg bridge

Posted by chowdah on December 7, 2009 at 9:53pm

I have all the 'dev' version of the modules listed above.

I click the image button in ckeditor, and the Image Properties 'window' appears. There is a field for manually entering the URL of the image, but there is no 'browse' or 'upload' button.

The configuration I'm using works fine with tinyMCE. Am I doing something wrong?

WYSIWYG image solutions

Posted by jim0203 on November 25, 2009 at 12:32am

After a long while of messing with different WYSIWYG editors I've come to the conclusion that pretty much everyone seems to come to : use either FCKEditor or TinyMCE.

However, I still don't have a standard solution for providing image uploading capabilities in these editors. What is everyone else using? IMCE and IMCE WYSIWYG Bridge? What other solutions are available? Anything a bit slicker than the multiple clicks needed with these (very useful) modules?

Detect changes in Wysiwyg textares/iframe inside form

Posted by miro_dietiker on November 17, 2009 at 12:27pm

I'm trying to check forms for changes. In IRC #jquery the idea came up to use serialize() a form on .ready and compare serialize() it at a certain point to detect changes...

As soon as a wysiwyg editor (fckeditor in our case) is present, changes won't be tracked in that field. It shows that editor content is no more part of the form DOM.

I'm strongly looking for documentation about how to talk to wysiwyg api to check for changes in the editor. I didn't find the correct way to identify the wysiwyg editor instance, given the form element.

Google Closure

Posted by cosmicdreams on November 6, 2009 at 3:19pm

Today Google announced general availability of it's set of javascript tools called Closure. The set includes a Javascript compiler, library and template engine. In the javascript library they include an api for using their text editor. This is the same text editor used in many of Google's web applications like Google Docs, Google Wave, and Gmail... apparently.

Testing the editors

Posted by shunting on November 4, 2009 at 4:58pm

I created a test book in D6 for FCKeditor, NicEdit, TinyMCE, Whizzywig, YUI, jWYSIWYG, and markItUp (and now I see I need to do more, from this thread) for users to experiment with. Hope this is useful -- and doesn't duplicate the work of somebody I should have joined forces with!

Plans for determining which fields get editor

Posted by liquidcms on November 2, 2009 at 7:09pm

The biggest hindrance at the moment to adoption of WYSIWYG is that i don't think there is any current viable solution for controlling which fields get which editor instance assigned to them. I recall this being such a huge PITA back in 4.7 days and when D5 came along and FCK editor had a decent option for this it was all i needed to drop Tiny as my editor of choice and go with FCK.

But now we are at D6 and, if getting on the wysiwyg bandwagon, are taking a step backward to 4.7 days. I don't see much discussion about this on the forum; so thought it needed to be brought up.

Elaborating markItUp options

Posted by samirnassar on November 1, 2009 at 4:04am

I am adding the structure necessary to make use of more HTML elements than provided by default for markitup in WYSIWYG API 2.0

This is fairly easy and repetitive but I am coming up against a small problem. I'd like block elements to end with a newline at the end of the closing tags and some block elements could use a newline after the opening element too. I tried shoehorning a \n in but that is just outputting \n.

In any case, I am happy to submit the expanded options for markup, H3-h6, p, dl, dt, dd, ul, li, ol as well as any others people call for.

Installation problem in 7.x

Posted by princeanil on October 30, 2009 at 1:18pm

I've just downloaded the latest version on Drupal 7.x and the Wysiwyg module for 7.x. Installing the module and visiting
Home › Administer › Configuration and modules › Content authoring
give this error :

Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in wysiwyg_profile_overview() (line 382 of /drupal7/sites/all/modules/wysiwyg/wysiwyg.admin.inc).

Does that mean Wysiwyg is not yet ready for Drupal 7 ?

Can anyone help fit Autosave into WYSIWYG?

Posted by liquidcms on October 23, 2009 at 11:33pm

Hey gang,

I am (more or less) the maintainer of the Autosave module. I think this is pretty important module for anyone using Drupal for any sort of web based publishing system. Surprised not more people stressing that i haven't ported to Drupal 6 yet.

[FYI - Autosave saves your node edit form in the background in case your browser dies you don't lose your work. When you return to edit; if there was a saved copy it will ask if you want to use that or keep the last submitted copy]

CKEditor module launched!

Posted by FredCK on October 16, 2009 at 10:58pm

To satisfy the urgent need of having CKEditor into Drupal, we've just launched the CKEditor module. This is supposed to be the immediate upgrade solution for FCKeditor module users, a well as the current best option for those willing to have this editor into their Drupal sites.

Wysiwyg cleaner : a module to create custom content cleaning buttons for the Wysiwyg module

Posted by jide on October 16, 2009 at 12:17pm

Using the Wysiwyg cleaner module, you can create content cleaning buttons for Wysiwyg editors using jQuery / Regular expressions rules. It uses the Wysiwyg plugin API. Visit the project page for more information.

I thought the group might want to know about it ;)

Role-based profiles as in TinyMCE Module

Posted by alex.skrypnyk on October 13, 2009 at 9:49am

TinyMCE Profiles (which allow to configure different user profiles based on the roles) are not accessible from WYSIWYG module. Instead, WYSIWYG module provides its own profiles that are related to Input Formats.

The problem that I have appears with Input Formats permissions when trying to access the node from role which is not allowed in the Input Format. Here is the example.
(Role – Input Filter)
Editor – Simple TinyMCE (less buttons)
Moderator – Advanced TinyMCE (more buttons)

Can w-api manage editor's detailed settings?

Posted by liquidcms on October 6, 2009 at 8:55pm

I am just starting to familiarize myself with w-api's way of doing things and i like it's approach of piggy-backing on to input formats.

I get that the idea of w-api is to prevent developers from duplicating each feature in an editor specific module; but am wondering if it has got up to the existing modules as far as feature support.

Back in Dr5 days we required the need to assert specific Tiny "themes" to specific fields. Please keep in mind that a Tiny theme is NOT css but is a configuration definition for Tiny which includes more than just which plugins are enabled.

The version of TinyMCE could not be detected.

Posted by Jorgen Sundberg on October 2, 2009 at 2:30pm

I have installed Wysiwyg and tried both the TinyMCE and FCKEditor as editor libraires but the error messages I get are:

"The version of TinyMCE could not be detected" & "The version of FCKeditor could not be detected."

Any ideas?

I have tried reinstalling Wysiwyg but no luck.

What does Wysiwyg module do for me?

Posted by liquidcms on September 30, 2009 at 3:42pm

Hey, sorry if there is a post somewhere that describers this but i couldn't see it (likely should be on project page??).

What is the value that the wysiwyg module provides for us over a solution like the fck module paired with fck?

We have a large publishing system that currently uses the combination of Dr5, TinyMCE module and TinyMCE. We are beginning work to convert this system of around 160 modules over to Dr6 and i have come across the dilemma that the TinyMCE module has been deprecated and we are trying to sort out which way to go as far as a WYSIWYG editor.

Drupal 7 Status

Posted by rj on September 22, 2009 at 4:44am

Hi All -

I spent the last hour researching WYSIWYG API for Drupal7 and my head is spinning with both joy and pain. What is the current status, and how can I help out? (other than donating, which I already did). Will D7 support either TinyMCE or FCKEditor when it's released?

Tiny MCE not using theme CSS even though it's set to

Posted by chowdah on September 16, 2009 at 4:13pm

I'm using Drupal 6.13 with the WYSIWIG module and tinyMCE.

I have used WYSIWIG module's profile>configure dialogue to set tinyMCE to "Use theme CSS". When inputting data using tinyMCE, the style is not the site's themed style, however the resulting node displays to the correct css. Is this the way it is supposed to work or should the text I'm typing into the editor be using the site's theme css as I type?

I posted this question in the forums and it got buried with no responses. Thanks for any help with this!

Weird behaviors with teaser break code inserted by TinyMCE

Posted by chowdah on September 16, 2009 at 4:08pm

I posted this in the forums but it was buried with no response, so I'm hoping to find some answers here.

I'm using Drupal 6.13, and have installed TinyMCE using the WYSIWIG module. Everything works great with the editor, but I'm confused about some issues I'm having with the teaser breaks:

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