They can certainly enter tables. As for special characters, well, I just don't know about that. I'm sure an email to the support folks for either company (or perhaps a browse of their docs) will tell. What sort of special chars do you mean? Are you referring to if they put in an ampersand, you'd like it to change to the HTML representation &, or if they put in a < you'd like to change it to <? I'm pretty sure they do that. If you mean internationalization, I don't know their support for that.
But certainly, you can create tables, and other typical HTML constructs. Again, perhaps the best means to prove the point is to visit those sites and run the trial versions that both offer. I don't think they even require any signup. You just visit the demo link, and if it's the first time you've done so, you'll be prompted to download the client-side controls that give that rich text editing interface. That's a one-time download (and I found that having done so for EWebEditPro, I didn't need to do it again for ActiveEdit, so it seems they both leverage the same core technology, at least on IE). I know that EWebEditPro also has support for Netscape. Haven't looked into that for ActiveEdit. /charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davids MR Dr Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] TEXTAREA of CFFORM - TABLES ETC Charles, would you also recommend EWebEditPro and ActiveEdit for allowing users to enter tables and special characters into a textarea or are there other alternatives. Thanks. Razeen. -----Original Message----- From: charles arehart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 9:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] using HTML in TEXTAREA of CFFORM I should add, too, that if you want to give the users a means to enter the data with HTML changes but without requiring them to know HTML, there are a couple of alternatives out there to achieve that. The user is shown a "rich text editor" instead of a textarea. It can still be just a small part of a bigger page: it doesn't take over the entire user interface. They just see like a mini word processor in the equivalent space of a textarea, with buttons for setting bold, italics, underline, changing fonts, and lots lots more. That resulting code appears to your form processing page as the same HTML they'd have built in your current approach, but of course it's a WYSIWYG editor to the user and they needn't know HTML. Two classic solutions in the CF world are EWebEditPro (http://www.ektron.com/ewebeditpro.cfm) from Ektron.com, and ActiveEdit (http://www.cfdev.com/activedit/) from CFDev.com. Both sites have live demos for you to see what the tools are about. /charlie - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: Davids MR Dr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net) - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: "charles arehart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net)
