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How to customize the WYSIWYG Editor

Tags: WYSIWYG editor, TinyMCE, customizing editor

SOBI2 uses an integrated version of TinyMCE as front-end editor for textareas. This editor can be adjusted to fit your needs.

Adjust the size of the editor

If you have a very small column for the Add/Edit Entry form, the editor can be too wide for it.

First step is to set the editor's text area width in the Fields Manager to a narrow width. Do that by adjusting the number of field columns.

The editor itself needs a certain width for the button bars. So, if the editor width is too big you have to reorder the position of the editor buttons. Do that by editing the file /components/com_sobi2/includes/js/tiny_init.js.

tinyMCE.init({
mode : 'none',
theme : 'advanced',
theme_advanced_buttons1 : 'bold,italic,underline,fontselect,fontsizeselect, separator,strikethrough,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright, justifyfull,undo,redo,',
theme_advanced_buttons2 : 'code,hr,link,separator,bullist,numlist',
theme_advanced_buttons3 : '',
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : 'top',
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : 'left',
extended_valid_elements : 'a[name|href|target|title|onclick],img[class|src|border=0|alt|title|hspace|vspace|width|height|align|onmouseover|onmouseout|name],
hr[class|width|size|noshade],font[face|size|color|style],span[class|align|style]',
language : 'english'
});

Move some buttons from the first bar to the second bar

E.g. change these two lines to move the buttons undo and redo to the second bar:

theme_advanced_buttons1 : 'bold,italic,underline,fontselect,fontsizeselect, separator,strikethrough,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright, justifyfull,',
theme_advanced_buttons2 : 'undo,redo,code,hr,link,separator,bullist,numlist',

In the same way you can remove some of the buttons.

Further adaptions: The TinyMCE editor is written by Moxiecode Systems. They have a documentationon how to change the behaviour of the editor.


Date added: 29.1.2008
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