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A good web CMS needs a good HTML editor

A good HTML text editor is one that brings many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word to the web.

As part of the annual license fee, we recently upgraded the EdukaCMS with Version 2.4 of the world famous FCK editor for free for all our EdukaCMS clients.

Every Web CMS in the world has one. At Eduka, our quest is never ending as we push the boundaries of what you can do with the editor.  What started 6 years ago as the IE DOM DHTML editor, we have over the years changed the editor to suit times and to make sure the CMS stays relevant and current.

We moved to the standards based, cross-browser compatible FCK Editor 2 years ago. This current upgrade allows us to:

  • Introduce the Enter Key Handler. It gives us freedom to configure the editor to generate p, div or br tags when the user uses both the [Enter] and [Shift]+[Enter] keys. It also guarantees that all browsers will generate the same output.
  • Introduce the Keyboard Accelerator System to precisely control the commands to execute when some key combinations are activated by the user. It means that all browsers will have the same behaviour regarding the shortcuts.
  • Make it possible to remove buttons from the toolbar and still invoke their features by using the keyboard instead. Features that can be hidden away from your general users.
  • Blocks all default "CTRL based shortcuts" imposed by the browsers, so if you don't want users to underline text, just remove the CTRL+U combination from the keystrokes table. This means better style protection.
  • Introduce the new "ProtectedTags" configuration option. It will accept a list of tags (separated by a pipe "|"), which will have no effect during editing, but will still be part of the document DOM. This can be used mainly for non HTML standard, custom tags. Particularly useful with the new Eduka Forms library that is due to be introduced soon

Feature Set of the Eduka CMS with the FCK Editor:

  • Multi browser compatibility
  • Outputs XHTML 1.0
  • CSS support for better integration with the web site
  • Font formatting: type, size, colour, style, bold, italic, etc
  • Text formatting: alignment, indentation, bullets list, etc
  • Cut, Paste and Paste as Plain Text, Undo and Redo
  • Paste from Word cleanup with auto detection
  • Link and anchors support
  • Image insertion, with upload and server browsing support
  • Table creation and editing (add, delete rows, etc) - one of the best systems in the market.
  • Table cells editing (size, colours, etc)
  • Form fields
  • Right click context menus support
  • Complete toolbar customisation
  • Skins support
  • Plug-ins support
  • Spell checker
  • Multi-language support with automatic user language detection. Including Right to Left scripting.
  • Complete page editing (from to ) or just contents.
  • Lightweight and fast
  • Automatic browser detection and customisation
  • Integration with ASP, ASP.NET, Java, Javascript and more.
  • Image and file links upload and server repository browser.