YUI Library Examples: Rich Text Editor (beta): Simple Editor — Advanced Buttons

Setting up the Editors HTML

Setting up the Editor's HTML is done by creating a textarea control on the page.


1	<form method="post" action="#" id="form1">
2	<textarea id="editor" name="editor" rows="20" cols="75">
3	This is some more test text.<br>This is some more test text.<br>This is some more test text.<br>
4	This is some more test text.<br>This is some more test text.<br>This is some more test text.
5	</textarea>
6	</form>
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Once the textarea is on the page, then initialize the Editor like this:


1	(function() {
2	//Setup some private variables
3	var Dom = YAHOO.util.Dom,
4	Event = YAHOO.util.Event;
5
6	//The SimpleEditor config
7	var myConfig = {
8	height: '300px',
9	width: '530px',
10	dompath: true,
11	focusAtStart: true
12	};
13
14	//Now let's load the SimpleEditor..
15	var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.SimpleEditor('editor', myConfig);
16	myEditor.render();
17	})();
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To use the advanced buttons we need to make sure that we load the Menu and Button controls first.

Now we need to tell the SimpleEditor to use the advanced buttons by setting the _defaultToolbar.buttonType variable to advanced


1	var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.SimpleEditor('editor', myConfig);
2	myEditor._defaultToolbar.buttonType = 'advanced';
3	myEditor.render();
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