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Andrew Berry
Andrew Berry

Reputation: 863

How do I show a HTML editor in an ASP.NET MVC 4 page

I have been working on an MVC app. Currently I use @Html.EditorFor(model => model.TextField) to display a textbox.

Now I want to use a WYSIWYG HTML Editor instead but don't know how to incorporate this into the Razor View. I already have the field set as to allow html in my model.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 18499

Answers (1)

von v.
von v.

Reputation: 17108

If you want to use TinyMCE then you can do something like this:

The Model

public class EditorModel
{  
    [UIHint("tinymce_full"), AllowHtml]
    public string TextField { get; set; }
}

The Template under Shared -> EditorTemplates

@*
Don't forget to reference the JQuery Library here, inside your view or layout.
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-x.x.x.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
*@

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/tinymce/jquery.tinymce.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

    (function () {

        $(function () {

            $('#@ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName(string.Empty)').tinymce({

                // Location of TinyMCE script
                script_url: '@Url.Content("~/Scripts/tinymce/tiny_mce.js")',
                theme: "advanced",

                height: "500",
                width: "500",
                verify_html: false,
                plugins: "pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,wordcount,advlist", //,autosave

                // Theme options
                theme_advanced_buttons1: "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
                theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
                theme_advanced_buttons3: "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
                theme_advanced_buttons4: "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,pagebreak,restoredraft,codehighlighting,netadvimage",
                theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top",
                theme_advanced_toolbar_align: "left",
                theme_advanced_statusbar_location: "bottom",
                theme_advanced_resizing: false,

                // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
                //            content_css : "@Url.Content("~/Content/style.css")",
                convert_urls: false,

                // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
                template_external_list_url: "lists/template_list.js",
                external_link_list_url: "lists/link_list.js",
                external_image_list_url: "lists/image_list.js",
                media_external_list_url: "lists/media_list.js",

                valid_elements: "@@[span]"
            });

        });

    })();

</script>

@Html.TextArea(string.Empty, /* Name suffix */
    ViewData.TemplateInfo.FormattedModelValue /* Initial value */
)

View Implementation

@Html.EditorFor(m=>m.TextField)

Upvotes: 1

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