I am looking for a simple HTML editor.
This package should fulfill the following:
Generates old type of HTML with no CSS
Fully supports Right-To-Left and Hebrew fonts
Must be an ActiveX / OCX component
Most editors in the market that I found so far, generate sophisticated HTML
What can you recommend?
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I need it for a desktop application. I want the user to be able to edit text like in HTML editor (font styles, alignment) etc.
One option which works well in desktop applications would be using a Richtext control, like TRichEdit or TRichView (commercial) for the editor.
RTF supports unicode and LTR and RTL (right-to-left) languages.
The generated RTF source can be exported to HTML, either with TRichView export functions or a converter library like my (commercial) ScroogeXHTML library.
nBit HTML Editor ActiveX/OCX (Commercial) seems to fit your requirements, except that the website does not state explicit support for hebrew/Right-to-left, so let's assume it doesn't support those, unless you can download a demo and try it. I have not used it so I cannot say.
It supports but does not seem to require CSS.
TRichView can import the HTML into RTF, then export it as HTML. I use it for a chat program message composer and a group chat message viewer by sending HTML between clients. I'm not sure about the span tag.
The TWebBrowser component used to allow editing; I haven't checked it lately but this is what I can find on Google:
How to enable editing of a document in TWebBrowser
Using it wasn't as straightforward as one would wish, but I remember doing pretty good things with it.
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I am working with an open source ETL tool (dagster) that allows me to attach some "metadata" to the results of each operation.
Typically the metadata should be text or numbers, but I want to insert an HTML snippet.
My issue is that the HTML is not "rendering" in the tool's web-ui. Here is a quick screenshot of the UI and the source tree:
Any ideas on how I can have it "render" in the UI?
I think the closest you can get to rendering HTML in Dagster is using the markdown metadata type. Rendering HTML is specifically not supported due to the possible vulnerabilities it could introduce.
I'm new to elipse php. i have used dream viewer for my php development before moving to the eclipse. So, i need to know when i drag and drop the css file into html editor, it needs to auto genarate the <link> tag for that css file. It worked with dream viewer. But its not working with eclipse. And, also when i need to use css classes inside html tag it needs to type the css class name.But, instead that i need to know how to config that to all the css class as suggestion for html tags, like in dream viewer and netBeans.
The text DnD (Drag and Drop) feature (initially introduced by bug 11624 in 2007) has been slowly extended to various editors, as reported by the bug 231294:
Tested in EclipsePdt-2.2.0.v20100427
Verified fixed for:
PHP files
JS files
Still reproducible in:
CSS files
HTML files
XML files (source view)
So it is still "work in progress".
The relevant blocking issues are:
bug 178104: [DND] Need to revisit dnd API to allow multiple drop targets
bug 173405: Make use of IDragAndDropService (Show Votes)
bug 195655: Drag'n'drop selected text
First of all Eclipse is not an IDE, it's a platform you can build IDEs (or any other application). There are several implementations for different languages. Most popular one which is actually the origin of Eclipse is Java IDE. There is also a plugin/feature for PHP development, called PDT.
DreamViewer is a specialized WYSIWYG editor for web development (mostly around HTML/CSS/Javascript) that includes support for different web scripting languages. It has some special properties as you mentioned, that can create a link element when you DnD.
What you can do is request a new feature from PDT team, that creates a link element to the dropped file inside a HTML document.
My web application has an feature wherein preformatted RTF documents are used as templates and the user can select the source of data and then merge with the RTF documents templates to create merged RTF files. The RTF templates have placeholders which get replaced with user selected content. The final doc can either be saved or opened directly if word/wordpad is available on the local users machine.
Now, I have a requirement to display the merged document to the user for confirmation. The user may either print or save the document to the system directly. The display should not be word/wordpad application but should be within the application itself, using textarea or something similar to render the document. Can you please let me know if its possible to render the RTF document in textarea or not. Along with the displayed content, there should be options to print and save the document.If I have to convert the RTF to Html and then display the html content in textarea , please let me know how i can do the conversion and then display the html in the page.
That's a very difficult requirement. First of all, let's dismiss the idea about a <textarea>, because it does not support any formatting at all. All the WYSIWYG editors you've seen out there are based on <iframe>s.
Secondly, no browser can directly display a RTF. You can embed it as an <object>, and some might show it (IE probably will), but I can't say which ones won't. Portable devices almost certainly won't. But you should test this though, maybe it works well enough after all.
Failing that, HTML conversion is also out of question, because RTF has very very many features that cannot be emulated in HTML. There are some converters out there (google), but but they will all come with serious limitations. If you want full support, you will have to do your own rendering via Canvas or Flash or something.
To this end I'd suggest checking out Google Docs. They've gone through all of this hassle and have a rather feature-full engine for displaying most possible documents. I think it was also possible to embed them in your own webapges, though I've never checked it out myself.
Use a <PRE> tag to Display/Render RTF doc in browser.
Microsoft have just released a few new ajax controls including an ajaxed up HTML editor control.
http://www.asp.net/learn/Ajax-Control-Toolkit/tutorial-50-cs.aspx
I would like to try this in Sharepoint (as the built in Sharepoint one is awful (no cross browser at all and flaky on IE) I tried the Telerik free one but it was not very stable.
I guess that getting the control up on a page won't be too hard, but how do I make sure the resulting HTML is stored in the Sharepoint way(tm)?
Thanks
If you intend to replace the standard SharePoint rich text editor, you would likely find it much easier to use jQuery than the ajax control toolkit. The MS ajax controls have a server component - you may be able to get it into a custom column type, but it's going to be a lot easier if you just replace the textbox with something better clientside.
The standard control works in a similar way - a standard textbox containing html is created on the server, and javascript is used to hide that and connect it to the rich text editor.
There is really nothing you need to do to format the HTML for SharePoint. If you are working with a field control you can expect that SharePoint will strip out a lot of the HTML from your control.
Is there a way to export a simple HTML page to Word (.doc format, not .docx) without having Microsoft Word installed?
If you have only simple HTML pages as you said, it can be opened with Word.
Otherwise, there are some libraries which can do this, but I don't have experience with them.
My last idea is that if you are using ASP.NET, try to add application/msword to the header and you can save it as a Word document (it won't be a real Word doc, only an HTML renamed to doc to be able to open).
There's a tool called JODConverter which hooks into open office to expose it's file format converters, there's versions available as a webapp (sits in tomcat) which you post to and a command line tool. I've been firing html at it and converting to .doc and pdf succesfully it's in a fairly big project, haven't gone live yet but I think I'm going to be using it.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jodconverter/
There is an open source project called HTMLtoWord that that allows users to insert fragments of well-formed HTML (XHTML) into a Word document as formatted text.
HTMLtoWord documentation
While it is possible to make a ".doc" Microsoft Word file, it would probably be easier and more portable to make a ".rtf" file.
If you are working in Java, you can convert HTML to real docx content with code I released in docx4j 2.8.0. I say "real", because the alternative is to create an HTML altChunk, which relies on Word to do the actual conversion (when the document is first opened).
See the various samples prefixed ConvertInXHTML. The import process expects well formed XML, so you might have to tidy it first.
Well, there are many third party tools for this. I don't know if it gets any simpler than that.
Examples:
http://htmltortf.com/
http://www.brothersoft.com/windows-html-to-word-2008-56150.html
http://www.eprintdriver.com/to_word/HTML_to_Word_Doc.html
Also found a vbscribt, but I'm guessing that requires that you have word installed.
I presume from the "C#" tag you wish to achieve this programmatically.
Try Aspose.Words for .NET.
If it's just HTML, all you need to do is change the extension to .doc and word will open it as if it's a word document. However, if there are images to include or javascript to run it can get a little more complicated.
i believe open office can both open .html files and create .doc files
You can open html files with Libreoffice Writer. Then you can export as PDF from File menu. Also browsers can export html as a PDF file.
use this link to export to word, but here image wont work:
http://www.jqueryscript.net/other/Export-Html-To-Word-Document-With-Images-Using-jQuery-Word-Export-Plugin.html