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WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors: Your CMS’s Achilles’ heel
Most of what you read online flows through web-based (browser-based) WYSIWYG Rich Text editors. These tools are central to every CMS and enable content authors, who might know little about HTML, to create HTML. However, content authors are often baffled by … Continue reading
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DO NOT use font styling in your Rich Text WYSIWYG editor
This web page looks the way it does because of a combination of HTML and CSS. These 2 technologies are the primary languages of the web. However, very few people who publish web content know HTML & CSS. This is … Continue reading
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Modifying the width of the CKEditor Styles dropdown
CKEditor comes included with a handy-dandy style selector: Unfortunately this style selector defaults to a very small width. This small width can result in larger styles being truncated: Thankfully this can be fixed with a couple of custom styles:
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Create a Rich Text editing experience that authors won’t avoid
WYSIWYG Rich Text editors are central to every CMS. These tools enable content authors, who might know nothing about HTML, to create HTML content. However, content authors frequently fear and avoid their CMS’s rich text editor. These tools are perceived … Continue reading
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Copy from MS Word, Paste into a Rich Text WYSIWYG editor
This title will send chills up the spine of web developers & content authors everywhere. Web Developers fear the bloated markup caused by this action. Content authors fear the difficulty of mixing their favorite authoring environment with their CMS’s editor. … Continue reading
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Unclutter your Rich Text Editor’s toolbar– Essential vs. Useless Features
WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors (like TinyMCE, CKEditor, RadEditor, etc.) are central to how content gets into a CMS. These tools enable content authors, who know nothing about HTML, to create HTML. However, these tools are notoriously fragile, buggy and confusing … Continue reading
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WYSIWYG Rich Text Editors – What could possibly go wrong?
I’m researching this subject for an upcoming session. For this session, I wanted a screenshot showing the abominations made possible by too many Rich Text features. Here is what I came up with… I’m using TinyMCE, but it could’ve been … Continue reading
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