Posted by ferd on 12/21/06 13:47

Thank you very much. quick question:

-any suggestions?


Benjamin Niemann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> ferd wrote:
>
> > I've read a few posts about how textareas can't have links or other
> > rendered elements, so I'm wondering how gmail does it and if it's
> > something I can cook up at home. specifically, I'd like to allow the
> > user to type in an entry, very much like typing in this post, and then
> > highlight a chunk of text, click a button and assign a hyperlink to it.
>
> This is not done using a TEXTAREA. It uses a feature that some browsers
> support (IE, FF, recent versions of Safari and Opera). Basicly any element
> can be turned into an 'HTML WYSIWYG editor' by setting a property
> (contentEditable) with JavaScript.
>
> > Is this something I can do?
>
> There are a lot of ready-to-use editors. I'd suggest that you look for one
> that can be easily customized. Throw out all options but the link feature.
> I know that this can be done with HTMLArea (which has been discontinued).
>
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Benjamin Niemann
> Email: pink at odahoda dot de
> WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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