Matthew Knott

I currently use a rich text editor called Tiny MCE to write the articles for this site. When I started using it, I thought it was the bees knees, but I've come to find it has more than its fair share of drawbacks.

For one, I find myself circumventing it more and more, it strips my code tags, removes / from the beginning of internal links, and completely strips http://www.mattknott.com/ which can be annoying when you are referencing content from multiple locations!

In addition to all of this, I go into html mode a fair bit adding in syntax to try and maintain xhtml 1.0 strict adherence. There has to be an easier way.

This week I'm going to have a stab at a solution based around tag suggestion, similar to the Dreamweaver code editor, triggered by <, a list of tags appears, and refines as I continue to type. Clicking a tag will insert the text I want, the way I want it, including alt tags and title tags for images and links respectively.

I will post an update as to how I get on, as it's going to be a bit of a challenge, but with any luck it'll be something to expand upon in the future.

Tags: Syntax Standards Rich Text Editor RTE Rich_Text_Editor Dreamweaver Web_Standards Suggest Tag