Editing ezpublish/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/edit/eztext.tpl wont change anything

Sunday 06 April 2003 11:03:57 am

I was trying to integrate htmlarea into ezpublish (if OE were working in Mozilla, I could see myself paying the 150 bucks but surely not for an IE only solution) and lazy as I am, I figured I could just as well modify the Text type for this.

So I went and tried changing ezpublish/design/standard/templates/content/datatype/edit/eztext.tpl
but whatever I do, it won't end up on the page (not even something along the lines of adding AAAAAAAAA to the file).

From all I can tell, caching is deactivated so I really can't figure it out.

(If anyone already has integrated HTMLArea 3, I'd like to hear about that, of course ;-)

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Monday 07 April 2003 6:10:37 am

That's not really what I'm after.

Basically, I'm fine with saving the data in a text field but I want to change the edit template to support HTMLArea.

Basically, I just need to find a way to add a onLoad call to the body tag and some script tags to the header (so the scripts are already loaded when the onLoad call happens).

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Monday 07 April 2003 4:37:45 pm

I already had come to that solution but it kinda sucks for one reason: you'll end up with ALL textareas being HTML editors, even with such where it doesn't make much sense (descriptions of objects for one).

Now HTMLArea can actually just turn some textareas to editors (by using the name attribute of those) but just how am I supposed to know this before the page is assembled?

It would actually work with onFocus events on the textareas in question but it's not exactly an elegant solution either. Whomever decided that only body may have onLoad evets should be shot ;-).

Ah well, maybe I can figure it out. I'll post it, rest assured (works better with IE than with Mozilla at the moment but the script is alpha so...).

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