YUI Library Examples: Rich Text Editor: Editor — Basic 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: '600px',
10	dompath: true,
11	focusAtStart: true
12	};
13
14	//Now let's load the SimpleEditor..
15	var myEditor = new YAHOO.widget.Editor('editor', myConfig);
16	myEditor.render();
17	})();
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Note: This example also includes ContainerCore so that we can use the color buttons.

To use the basic buttons we don't need to load the Menu and Button controls.

Now we need to tell the Editor to use the basic buttons instead, by setting the _defaultToolbar.buttonType variable to basic


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