FCKEditor question

2010-04-26 Thread Stephens, Larry V
I'm using FCKEditor for a textarea-type input of a text field. I want the versatility of the editor but need to limit the length of the resulting input. As a convenience to users I want to show how much space (characters) they have left and I'm using a javascript function that relies of

Re: FCKEditor question

2010-04-26 Thread Gerald Guido
I would try using the new version of CK editor and not use the richtext=true attribute. IIRC the older versions of FCK editor used an iframe. I am not sure if the version of CF you are using does the same thing. The new version of CK editor is less obtrusive and uses a plain text area field like

Re: FCKEditor question

2010-04-26 Thread denstar
Using a FCKEditor plugin is probably going to be best. I wrote one, a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, that was pretty freaking fancy. Can't remember what version it worked for tho, and things have changed a lot since then. You can also try using the custom hooks that FCKEditor comes

RE: FCKEditor question

2010-04-26 Thread Stephens, Larry V
Thanks to both of you. I'll explore that. -Original Message- From: denstar [mailto:valliants...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:01 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: FCKEditor question Using a FCKEditor plugin is probably going to be best. I wrote one, a long time ago

Re: FCKEditor question

2010-04-26 Thread Gerald Guido
One other thing, I was able to get CKEditor to work using cftextarea on CF 9 and it responded to the required and maxlength attributes which was rather nice. G! On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:00 PM, denstar valliants...@gmail.com wrote: Using a FCKEditor plugin is probably going to be best. I