[FX.php List] Styled Text?

[Joel Shapiro]

Thanks Dale & Steve

Doesn't sound like a great option for printing out of FMP, but it's  
good to have real-world experience to give back to the client.

Thanks everybody,
-Joel


On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Steve Winter wrote:

> Yip, me too, with exactly the same result... I took the route Webko  
> described and went for a web viewer for the FMP interface... it took  
> the users a while to get used to not being able to do Cmd B for bold  
> (though I think some of the newer WYSYWIG editors might be offering  
> keyboard commands now, this was a year or so back) but they learnt  
> to live with it...
>
> Getting stuff out, and even doing some clean-up of the frankly nasty  
> html that GetAsCSS() generates, was no problem, putting it back in  
> again, I gave up, went with the solution above, and stored the pure  
> HTML in the field....
>
> Cheers
> Steve
>
>
> On 23 Jun 2010, at 03:24, Dale Bengston wrote:
>
>> Yes, and I gave up on getting it to look good both places.
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Joel Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>> 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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