Rich Text Editing in TEXTEDIT

The TEXTEDIT form item provides a rich text editing feature based on HTML.

Important: This feature is deprecated, its use is discouraged although not prohibited.

Note: Consider using the fglrichtext web component, instead of richtext option in TEXTEDIT fields.

Important: The HTML content displayed inside a form element using the textFormat=html style must not be a complete HTML document (using CSS styles for example). The content must be simple HTML, with basic tags such as text decoration like <b/> for bold, <ul/>+<li/> for bullet lists, and inline styles.

The figure shows a screenshot of a textedit field implementing the rich text editing feature. — Figure: Rich text editing interface

To enable rich text editing, set the textFormat style attribute to html:

<Style name="TextEdit.richText">
  <StyleAttribute name="textFormat" value="html" />
</Style>

Richtext toolbox

By default, the rich text editor toolbox is displayed. Use the showEditToolBox style attribute, to show a toolbox at the top the the text editor:

<Style name="TextEdit.richText">
  <StyleAttribute name="textFormat" value="html" />
  <StyleAttribute name="showEditToolBox" value="yes" />
</Style>

The figure is a screenshot of a textedit field implementing the rich text editing feature with the toolbox shown at the top. — Figure: Rich text editing interface with toolbox always displayed.