How to get Bold, Italic, URL Links in Browser UI?

I am using the browser gui, without the visual formatting tags, as they make the page load very slow. Is there anyway to still get the ability to automatically set words in bold or italics, or to link to a URL just using the rtf="t" tag, and not the visual formatting?

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jzhuang

1. You can always write html in text areas to achieve what you need.
2. You can enter RTF using the Java UI.
3. Some html tool may allow you to copy RTF text into a text area as html.

MattP

Yes, these are all true, but they defeat the purpose of templating.

The page may be a little slower, but if it is really dragging, there may be other issues. I would limit it to only 1 per screen if the users computer has low memory. as well, you could make it pop-up so the editor is only available then the user needs it, the rest of the time you shouldn't see any speed degredation.

From the developers guide

Ektron suggests running no more than 5 editors per page.
To place more than 5 editors on a page, we recommend using a
popup button that opens one editor at a time. Alternatively, you
could group them with a "next" key to bring up the next batch.

Matt

Matthew Petitjean
BOC Group
Murray Hill, NJ 07974 USA

Adam Stoller

The other option is set the textarea attribute, external-editor-inline="f" (that's lower-case F as in FALSE) - and then you will have a button associated with the textarea - and if the user clicks on that button, they'll get the Visual Format Editor in a separate window. This reduces the time it takes to render the form (because you don't pay for all the ActiveX calls) while maintaining the additional functionality that falls outside of the separation of content and presentation edicts.

--fish
(Interwoven Senior Technical Consultant)

gzevin

I have written an RTF callout that does not require install, so most of users are using it instead of visual format.

Greg Zevin
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU

Migrateduser

Can you please post the code