I have made up an example to show everyone how to use the text editor in your ows modules.

Download the attached example below

(TESTED WITH - OWS 2.1.13, DNN 5.1.1, WIN 2003, SQL 2008)

FYI: Here are the basic steps you need to complete to get the text editor working properly:

STEP 1 Modify your "Add" form

Change your text input box from:

to a text editor:

{TEXTEDITOR,frmDescription,frmDescriptionTemp,Form,100%,400}

STEP 2 Modify your "Add" form button

You will need to add some code so that the text editor remembers your variable.

Add this code to the start of your button:

document.getElementById('frmDescription').value=FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('frmDescription').GetXHTML(true);

so your button looks like:

Save

STEP 3 Modify your "Save" variable

Modify your save variable so it looks like:

STEP 4 Modify your "Edit" form

Change your text input box from:

to a text editor:

{TEXTEDITOR,frmDescription[ID],"\[Description\]",text,600,300}

STEP 5 Modify your "Edit" form button

You will need to add some code so that the text editor remembers your variable.

Add this code to the start of your button:

document.getElementById('frmDescription[ID]').value=FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('frmDescription[ID]').GetXHTML(true);

so your button looks like:

Save

STEP 6 Modify your "Update" variable

Modify your save variable so it looks like:

Hopefully this will help everone out :)

R2I / Kevin: Can we please pin this thread for future reference?

The only way I have been able to get this to work properly is the uncheck Escape HTML Symbols.

Is that an oversight in the example or are we supposed to leave that checked?

I have also found it hard in the past to get my head around this issue ;)

Thanks for the clarification Kevin.