Inserting HTML Tags into DHTML Edit Control????

[Mike]

Hello,

I am developing a simple web editor to enable my users to update their websites and add simple formatting to the text.

The page content is recovered from a SQL Server database and displayed in the Microsoft DHTML Edit control ( I am working in Visual Studio 2003 - VB ). I have experimented with the ExecCommand function but all I want to do is select some text - press a button to make that selected text <h1>some text</h1>. I have a button that reads the clipboard content, adds the correct HTML tags around the text, and then pastes back to the DHTML Edit Control.

However, when I paste the contents of the clipboard back to the DHTML Edit control I get this :

<h1>some text</h1> instead of some text , and I have no control over where the new text appears!

How can I select text, enclose in the desired HTML Tag and then replace the selected text with the new HTML formatted text?

Any help would be really appreciated as I have spent some days on this!

Thank you

Mike Lowe
Application Developer
Rhondda-Cynon-Taf County Borough Council
Education & Children's Services

 

[Cor]

Hi Mike,

did you look at designMode = "On"

And please do us a favor, do not post in HTML to newsgroups,
For some of us it looks terrible and beside that it is in most newsreaders
difficult reading.

Cor

 

[Mike]

Hi,

apologies for HTML.

Yeah, design mode is on, any other clues?

Cheers,

Mike.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Mike" <[email protected]> scripsit:
[...]

Please do not post in HTML format!

I would ask the question in this group:

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[Cor]

Hi Herfried,
<news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.dhtml_editin
g>

Real a newsgroup for you.
In 2 months
81 messages
12 answered

Something to do for you
)

Cor

 

[Mike]

Many thanks.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

<news://news.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.inetsdk.programming.dhtml_editin
g>

Real a newsgroup for you.
In 2 months
81 messages
12 answered

Something to do for you

I did a google search on the DHTML Edit control and I saw that most
threads about this control were posted to this group. Thank you for
making me aware of the "inactivity" of this group.

 

[Cor]

Hi Herfried,

I was curious, because I am thinking on doing something the same as Mike and
think that I know how to do it, but all solutions I did think of till now
are a lot of work and not user friendly.

Cor