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Tuesday 9 August 2005

Remote XUL Html Editor

After the last post, I finally managed to get to the point where the simple XUL HTML remote editor works.

Source code is available via Subversion
http://www.akbkhome.com/svn/XUL/HtmlEdit
Browse the source
Try it out.

Usage is pretty simple:

Install the files on your server

Add the css header

<?xml-stylesheet href="HtmlEdit.css" type="text/css"?>

use the htmledit tag, it uses attributes
eg.
```
 <htmledit value="hello world" />  
```

editorheight="400" (self explanitary)
editorwidht="700" (self explanitary)
imagepopup="name" where name is the id of a popup
linkpopup="name" where name is the id of a popup
value="the text to go in the editor"

For the image popup:

use imageurl="xxx" on the menuitem for the real image url to insert in the editor

For the link popup:

use url="xxx" on the menuitem for the url to insert into the editor
the url "pick:" just uses a javascript prompt to ask you for the url.

Posted by alan in at 11:17:00

Awesome
Wow - last time I tried that, wasted my time barking up the wrong tree (http://xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_editor.html).

Thanks for releasing that (and like the SVN browser)

#1 - Harry Fuecks ( Link) on 09 Aug 2005, 15:38 Delete Comment

Xulrunner feedback
From what I know of Xulrunner it is designed to run local xul - the editor has quite a bit of code to work around the permissions resulting in remote XUL can not use the <editor> tag. - So This approach may not be ideal for xulrunner.

#6 - Alan Knowles ( Link) on 03 Aug 2007, 15:24 Delete Comment