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Enhanced the TEXTAREA tag to provide a WYSIWYG editor that generates HTML code. How many different Javascript, ActiveX, Applet and AJAX solutions exist for this problem? How many of them <u>actually work</u>? None. Let's fix this problem once and do it right. Imagine: | Enhanced the TEXTAREA tag to provide a WYSIWYG editor that generates HTML code. How many different Javascript, ActiveX, Applet and AJAX solutions exist for this problem? How many of them <u>actually work</u>? None. Let's fix this problem once and do it right. Imagine: | ||
< | <textarea id="foo" type="wysiwyg"> </textarea> | ||
The user would see a text box with WYSIWYG editing controls. When the form submits, the field would contain HTML code for the user's content. Other browsers would ignore the new flag and display a standard TEXTAREA. | The user would see a text box with WYSIWYG editing controls. When the form submits, the field would contain HTML code for the user's content. Other browsers would ignore the new flag and display a standard TEXTAREA. | ||
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<u>EVERYONE</u> needs this, including this Wiki. | <u>EVERYONE</u> needs this, including this Wiki. | ||
:However we would be breaking the standards, wouldn't we? And i think we shouldn't be trying to do W3C's job. | :However we would be breaking the standards, wouldn't we? And i think we shouldn't be trying to do W3C's job. | ||
EDIT: Similar thing works in this version, but is not a fomt input and it's not submitted with the rest of the form. | |||
<div contanteditable="true"> </div> | |||
== Use mouse wheel to modify the values == | == Use mouse wheel to modify the values == | ||