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Reputation: 51

Add further special characters to Umbraco Rich Text Editor

Using Umbraco version 7.3.3 assembly: 1.0.5813.17867

I have been asked to allow a further special character to be added to the built-in character map functionality of the TinyMCE rich text editor used by / in the Umbraco back office.

The new character that I want to allow in the table of special characters is: 

 black down-pointing triangle

, also known as 

 &#9660

and

 ▼

rendered as: ▼

This should be available for all rich text editors in the Umbraco installation, so a global approach is required.

I can find this file: 

\umbraco\lib\tinymce\plugins\charmap\plugin.js

that defines all the allowed characters that can be inserted, but it's part of the Umbraco installation. I don't want to edit this file (or its minified sibling) as we'll lose this modification on an Umbraco upgrade.

I was hoping there would be something that could be done with the 

/config/tinyMceConfig.config

file, but it would seem that because the charmap is a plugin to TinyMCE there are no configuration options for it in the global TinyMce config.

Any suggestions would be welcome :-)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 651

Answers (1)

Michael Fromin
Michael Fromin

Reputation: 13736

TinyMCE supports adding items to the character map via the charmap_append configuration option:

https://www.tinymce.com/docs/plugins/charmap/#charmap_append

Not sure how you would add this to Umbraco but the editor itself definitely supports adding things to the character map.

Upvotes: 1

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