[FX.php List] Styled Text?

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks Webko, that's what it seems ("a challenge")

Anybody else tried this?

-Joel


On Jun 22, 2010, at 6:43 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:

> Dear Joel,
>>
>>
>> I'd checked out both of those editors.
>>
>> Webko: So do your FM fields contain the html markup (and have no  
>> FMP interface showing the styles)?
>
> Yes.
>
> I have yet to find a satisfactory way to mix and match the two - you  
> *can* use the GetAsCSS to display FM styled text to the web,  
> although it is clunky and not particularly standards compliant - but  
> that can't be edited via the web...
>
> I prefer to use the web for maintaining these fields, even if it's a  
> web viewer using the fckEditor (tinyMCE is also very good, and  
> remarkably similar)
>>
>> This is a project that's hoping to maintain the styles in the FMP  
>> interface as well as on the web...
>
> Yeah, getting stuff to be both nicely styled in FMP and then when  
> viewed by the web is a challenge...
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
>>
>> -Joel
>>
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 5:59 PM, Tim 'Webko' Booth wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 23/06/2010, at 10:39 AM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody have any experience maintaining bolded and  
>>>> italicized text back and forth between FM and the web? (only bold  
>>>> & italics, not font size, color, etc.)
>>>>
>>>> Users are currently styling text in FMP, and the client is  
>>>> wondering about bringing that interface and same functionality to  
>>>> the web.
>>>>
>>>> I know I could use (a cleaned-up version of) FM's GetAsCSS for  
>>>> displaying text, but what about placing it into a textarea for  
>>>> editing?  Or capturing text that's styled on a web page (or  
>>>> "pasted in from Word") and carrying that into FM?
>>>>
>>>> I've looked briefly at a couple JavaScript WYSIWYG editors, but  
>>>> thought I'd ask here before diving in deeper.  (Recommendations  
>>>> for WYSIWYG editors also appreciated ;)
>>>
>>> I don't do styled text inside FM - all data input and editing is  
>>> from the web and uses correct html through an editor.
>>>
>>> I use fckeditor which is very easy to set up and does most things  
>>> you'd want.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Webko
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