Basic formating of a textarea without VF?

Is it possible to offer the user basic textarea formatting without using visual format in the classic interface? All I need are hyperlinks and bold text!!
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tvaughan

You can edit your visualformatconfig.xml file and hack out everything except those items you need.

Without visual format, there's really no elegant way to do it.

Tom

Johnny

you could use your own callout that provides similar functionality... there are plenty available you can find on the web, similar to what hotmail provide.

What Ive done in the past is provide a very simple and small markup set for authors to use in a textarea, or anywhere really

simple regex's in your presentation template can do this

creating too many defeats the purpose of templating as your users need to remember a whole bunch of markup code.

John
Sydney, Australia

gzevin

I have created a Rich Text callout that could be restricted to what you want. Its benefits are it is extremely lightweight (as it resembles yahoo-like editor and does not use any ActiveX controls.

The only problem with this is that it has to use the IFRAME component, that is avaiiable only in IE, and, secondly, it will accept copy-paste from MS-Word, etc, so the text potentially could be cluttered with some rubbish. But this is not too hard to overcome.

Introducing any new non-standard markups is a dangerous idea, and, as usual, one should follow Occam's razor principle, 'don't create complexity without necessity' Smiley Happy

Greg Zevin
Independent Interwoven Consultant/Architect
Sydney, AU