Help: RTF Control for Web Page
Stewart
Hoping someone has done something like this in the past. I'm trying
to work out the best way to add an RTF control to my web page and save
it's contents as html back to a database.
Currently I have a page with a textbox. The user enters plain text
and hits save. The text is stored to the database. Simple as.
However I'm looking to enhance this so that the user has U, B, I and
hyperlink features similar to the way you create an email in yahoo
mail or hotmail. It can be assumed all users are using the windows
platform so ActiveX is fine. The main problems I'm having are:
1) How to collect the data from the (say ActiveX) component when the
user clicks save.
2) I'd prefer not to write this from scratch, though if I do I'm
quite comfortable with VB.Net and VB6 incl. writing ActiveX controls.
Hope to hear about your experiences and advice!
Thanks,
Stewart
Hermit Dave
its not an active X control... but pure asp.net webcontrol... when you post
the data.. on serverside you can read the html directly.
hope that helps
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Regards,
Hermit Dave
(http://hdave.blogspot.com)
"Stewart" <windsurf...@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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Michael Mattias
>
> Hoping someone has done something like this in the past. I'm trying
> to work out the best way to add an RTF control to my web page and save
> it's contents as html back to a database.
Hmm, maybe you should look for an HTML control instead of an RTF control?
MCM
Stewart
Thanks for your advice. I've decide to go with the asp.net control
offered by freetextbox.com. It plugs straight into your .net project
and is so easy to customise. I particularly like how you can select
which attributes (eg B, U, I, Font Size, Hyperlink etc) you want to
allow users to change.
Can't rate it highly enough. It's free but will probably buy source
to support them in this case.
Once again,
Thanks
Stewart