HTML Tags via a WYSIWYG Editor

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

robsoule - 26 Jul 2005 16:31 GMT

Hello!
I have a mostly working system for updating text in a Flash website. I am
using a javascript WYSIWYG test editor and then I save the contents of a text
field to a MySQL database.
The problem is that the free open source editor I'm using is generating
formatting tags that Flash doesn't recognize. For example, it will display
bold text in with a tag, but Flash needs to see.
Same with the italic tags. Flash doesn't read but it does read
.
Is there a way to make Flash read these other HTML tags? Thanks for any help!
Rob

Reply to this Message

LuigiL - 27 Jul 2005 08:41 GMT

No. Flash won't read those tags. Simply not supported. A quick way to correct
this, is replacing the tags with supported ones using regular expression in
your server side script that receives the formatted text from the editor and
then save the data to the database.

Reply to this Message

perry - 27 Jul 2005 14:02 GMT

or you use string methods to search/replace, like
yourString = yourString.split("").join("");
and so on ...

take a look at string and array object for details
perry

> No. Flash won't read those tags. Simply not supported. A quick way to correct
> this, is replacing the tags with supported ones using regular expression in
> your server side script that receives the formatted text from the editor and
> then save the data to the database.

Reply to this Message

robsoule - 27 Jul 2005 14:35 GMT

Thanks! I'll check into that option.

-Rob

Reply to this Message

Webmaster Forum / Flash / Data Integration / July 2005

HTML Tags via a WYSIWYG Editor