BlogEngine.NET - Plain Text Post Editor

by nathanrossi 7/2/2008 2:04:00 PM

The TinyMCE BlogEngine.NET Post Editor cant be a pain sometimes, as can all WYSIWYG editors. So if you’re good with HTML or just want to use a plain text then this is how you do it.

I wrote this tutorial because when I wanted to swap out the editor with just a text box I couldn’t find a tutorial.

What is explained here is how to swap the TinyMCE editor with a standard Text Area. First off you need to have BlogEngine installed. Then we look to replace the TinyMCE container with a standard multi line Text Area.

Open up the file “\admin\Pages\Add_entry.aspx” and find the line.

<Blog:TextEditor runat="server" id="txtContent" TabIndex="4" /></p>

<!-- And replace it with -->

<p><!-- Change the Width/Height to what ever suites you -->
<asp:TextBox runat="Server" ID="txtContent" Width="100%" Height="400px" TextMode="multiLine" />

Now to make the Auto Save work you must replace the line

var content = tinyMCE.getContent(&#8216;mce<em>editor</em>0&#8217;);</p>

<p>// With</p>

<p>var content = document.getElementById(&#8216;&lt;%=txtContent.ClientID %>&#8217;).value;

Also remove the Reference to the htmlEditor, cause its not needed anymore

&lt;%@ Register Src=&#8221;../htmlEditor.ascx&#8221; TagPrefix=&#8221;Blog&#8221; TagName=&#8221;TextEditor&#8221; %>

Now when you run it, you might notice that when u press enter in the Text Area it will Post Back, to prevent it posting we must edit the “\admin\Pages\Add_entry.aspx.cs”. Find this line.

if (!Utils.IsMono) Page.Form.DefaultButton = btnSave.UniqueID;</p>

<p>// And comment it out.</p>

<p>//if (!Utils.IsMono) Page.Form.DefaultButton = btnSave.UniqueID;

Save the files, and try out Plain Text Editor. To make it simpler you can just download the files and extract them into the “\admin\Pages\” and replace the existing files.

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If you don’t want to use HTML at all, you can try out other formatting extensions like the Markdown Formatter or a BBCode formatter.

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