DNN Module Development Series (6) Generic controls in--dnn (bottom)

TextEditor:

Brief introduction:

Rich Text editor control. The function is needless to say, we all often use. DNN uses providers mode to easily integrate a variety of rich text editors. As far as I know, there are: Freetextbox,fckeditor,webhtmleditor,cuteeditor. You can configure Web.config can easily choose to use one, the specific configuration method in each rich text editor providers should have a detailed description.

Location: Controls\texteditor.ascx

Property:

Choosemode: Enable/disable user Switching between General text editor and Rich text Editor, default to enable

Chooserender: Whether to enable text content rendering in general text editor mode is enabled by default

DefaultMode: Default editor mode, default to Rich Text mode ("Rich" or "BASIC")

HtmlEncode: Whether to HTML-encode content (that is, to escape some characters, such as: "<", ">" and so on)

Mode: The current editor pattern, Rich Text or general mode ("Rich" or "BASIC")

Text: The textual content of the control

Height: Control height

Width: Control widths

Textrendermode: Setting text rendering in general text editor mode {RAW | HTML | Text}

Raw: The Natural Way, the original text is what kind of display.

HTML: Convert text formatting to HTML (that is, replace all carriage returns with "" and replace the newline character with "<br/>")

Text: Converts HTML formatting to textual format (first replaces all whitespace Furu tabs, and then replaces all <br> labels with line breaks)

RichText: Rich Text editor Provider

How to use:

1, first in the need to apply the page to register this control, such as:

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" TagName="TextEditor" Src="~/controls/TextEditor.ascx"%>

2, in need to use the location to write down the following code, such as:

<dnn:texteditor id="teContent" runat="server" height="400" width="500"></dnn:texteditor>

3, in the background code to declare the control and use this control

Protected WithEvents teContent As TextEditor
teContent.Text = objArticle.Content
objArticle.Content = teContent.Text

Note: If you want to display rich text content, you need to decode it with Server.htmldecode ().

Related Rich Text editors available:

"Let DNN also use Cuteeditor"

Another handy Rich Text editor (FCKEditor) in DNN

"Lionhtmleditorprovider (v1.0.3)"