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Isnt it Time to add ckeditor or WYSIWYG Editor to SMF forum?

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Kindred:

--- Quote from: Kindred on September 09, 2011, 01:43:47 PM ---2.0  **HAS** a wysiwyg

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feline:

--- Code: ---[list]
[li]some item
some item
some item
some item[/li]
[li][/li]
[/list]
--- End code ---
That don't work in BBC and also not in html.
So what's you problem?

aamjad2001:
An editor the the one in wordpress would work like a charm. if anyone could accumulate that in smf.

Shawn Gossman:

--- Quote from: aamjad2001 on September 13, 2011, 08:33:58 AM ---An editor the the one in wordpress would work like a charm. if anyone could accumulate that in smf.

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Yeah something where you could use the WYSIWYG-like editor or switch to BBCode editor, like Wordpress is like (except not switch to HTML). Great idea aamjad!

keyrocks:
I'll chime in here and stongly suggest that the SMF team seriously consider improving the existing WYSIWYG Editor in SMF... or replace it with TinyMCE. The latter is stable and functions the way a WYSIWYG Editor should work. It even has the option of viewing the content in an HTML panel to make HTM edits convenient.

I'm in the process of migrating a couple thousand members from an older asp.net forum site that uses TinyMCE... to SMF 2.0.2. All of the same issues pointed out in this thread are coming back to me, along with problems using the "Insert Hyperlink" or "Insert Email" functions.

For example, when a member creates a hyperlink, the function icon should open a popup that allows the member to insert the absolute URL (to whatever) and insert the text for the text link, and after closing the popup all they should see in the Editor's text-area is the actual text-link. And, when their content is saved (posted), all viewers see is the text link. I am used to typing out the BBCode tags manually with the elements all in the right place without thinking about it... but my site members don't know how to do that.

If I type out the text for my text-link, highlight it, then click the "Insert Hyperlink" icon, it gets wrapped with the opening and closing BBcode tags like this:

--- Code: ---[url]Google[/url]

--- End code ---
... Notice that there isn't any absolute URL in the opening tag. When I save the content and open it back up for an edit, this is what I see:

--- Code: ---[url=http://Google]Google[/url]

--- End code ---
... which forms a broken, dysfunctional text link to nowhere. What it SHOULD be generating is:

--- Code: ---[url=https://www.google.ca/]Google[/url]

--- End code ---

SMF is a great forum system but... is there any reason why this and the issues with the other Editor functions cannot be, or are not being, fixed?

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