CKEditor 3.0 Beta 2 released!

powerful and extensible JavaScript API

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   This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">are </span></span></span>using <a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/">FCKeditor</a>.</p>

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   This is some <strong>sample text</strong>. You <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-size: 10px;">are </span>using <a href="http://www.fckeditor.net/">FCKeditor</a>.</p>

congrats on this new release, the main item I was waiting for was the dom > heirarchy > at > the > bottom as you have now added

what I found my self instinctively doing was trying to right click over each > of > those > elements and what I'd hoped for was a context menu with options like these:
1. quick tag editor - brings up small dialog box like Dreamweaver which allows me to edit attributes and even change tag name (disable execution of this on table/tr/td of course)
2. strip this tag - removes the tag but leaves the inside contents

well, those are the first two that I'd use constantly if they were available. The strip this tag feature would be extremely helpful for removing word html markup.

The other feature that would turn this into a real "developers tool" is: when I have selected content in the wysiwyg or layout view, and then I click on the "source" button, then the corresponding source is selected (and scrolled to ideally). A nice 2nd wish would be to have tabs be not so wide (though this is really a browser/character issue which I'm not sure you can overcome).

Oh, and a third wish would be to have a small horizontal bar below the heirarchy tree, moving the mouse over produced a north-south resize cursor, where you could click-drag the size of the editor region smaller or larger.

You guys are very advanced js programmers and it's way beyond my scope to help, or I'd be jumping in there. I hope these suggestions from a Dreamweaver user are helpful.

Sincerely,
Samuel Fullman

One more comment generally that I see my clients would probably understand better. that regards tables. For hyper links, there are two buttons, create a link and edit a link. I found it difficult to edit a TABLE unless I right-clicked over the table and selected that option. I found myself inserting a table inside a table cell a few times. it would be nice if "edit table" button was a separate button and was grayed out unless the cursor was in an existing table.

fredck wrote:@redsz, we have a long TODO list. We should have it in the future, but this is not that critical as it looks like. We'll keep it in mind, be sure.

Not critical, but quite annoying, especially when you have 64kb TEXT field in DB and FCK giving you 80kb of <span>'s to store into it...

Hi all,

I used ckEditor with asp.net / ajax, very good product, but now I would like to use it with silverlight ?
how to do, the ckEditor dll could'n be include in silverlight project ? pb of compatibility ?

Regards

fredck wrote:
This release is not yet targeted to production web sites. It's ready and stable enough to be integrated on testing environments, preparing your software for the upcoming Release Candidate.

Great job! I have already completed integration on some testing sites and it is working well for a beta product. I noticed the dates on the roadmap/milestones have not been updated. Can you give us a ROUGH estimate on projected RC and final release dates. I know you do not want to give hard dates here, but your best estimates in weeks(or months) will help everybody here in planning their updates.

Thanks
Kelly

@FredCK
1) Is CKEditor also FreeWare as an FCKEditor?
2) What are the main differences between FCKEditor and CKEditor? Why you are making a new program but not improving old?
3) FCKEditor - is very goor. Now i want to test CKEditor, looked up a demo - i liked how it workes with the tables! Maybe you can addthis functionality to FCKEditor?

And the last thing - maybe someone told you, i didn't find - can you add a function to change the width of colomns in tables by mouse? E.g. we put the mouse on the border between the colomns or rows and moving them?

Thank you for your good tool!

Yours faithfully, Danilov Anton.

Hello,

1.- Will this new editor have a File Manager with files overwrite/delete/rename capabilities?, the previous FCK do not have this.
2.- Will be open source?

Thanks a lot.
Best regards
joejac

samf wrote:The other feature that would turn this into a real "developers tool" is: when I have selected content in the wysiwyg or layout view, and then I click on the "source" button, then the corresponding source is selected (and scrolled to ideally).

I totally agree! Often when I use FCKeditor, I'm missing this feature. Often I have to check why something looks strange (for example when a customer has messed up the page), and for that I need to be able to get to a specific location in the html code. For a page with lots of content it takes quite some time to find the section of code you're looking for. This feature would speed things up enormously! It should also work the other way around if possible: when you select code in html view and then switch back to wysiwyg view, the corresponding wysiwyg content should become selected.

While I'm wishing, another important feature for web developers would be the ability to view code and layout side-by-side just like in Dreamweaver or Visual Studio - of course with the above-mentioned cross-selection possibilities.

FCKEditor is God sent tool. I have no reason to think other way about CKEditor. Keep it up.

However I still find one very important feature missing... if it is there, correct me.

The feature is: setting/changing css classes of an element, every element (hX, p, input, div, span...), in design view.

As a step toward it, you could at least add css class and id properties to properties dialog boxes. For example when I want to insert text box, I have Name, Value, Character Width, Maximum Characters, Type. There should be ID and CSS Class fields also, because this enables powerful scenarios with external JavaScript and is easier to maintain in the long run.

Is there a way to remove the DOM hierarchy bar from the bottom of the editor?
If so how?

Thanks for any help.

This version is going to have full accesibility?
Generated source code will be validated properly?

Thanks!

Thank you for the info.

The editor looks like it will end up being very good. A couple issues I've had so far though:

You have to click on HTML inside the editor for it to get focus. Clicking inside the editor but below the first line for example will not give focus if no HTML is there.

Is there a way to remove the toolbar button that hides the toolbar buttons?

If the CKEditor has focus, clicking on another text field on the page requires 2 clicks. Like it takes one click to give the original webpage focus and another to focus on the textfield, which is odd.

The top of the toolbar has no border which looks odd to me. How do you customise its skin?

EDIT: found it http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_3.x ... re/License

I agree with you geo, because i really suffered from looking for a way to customize the CKEditor, Users would surely need this feature.
anyway, if any one have ideas for doing so (customize CKEditor), i would be thankful.

Hey guys...

Q1: Does anyone know how to hook onto the keypress / onchange event of CKEditor to trigger a custom function when content changes in the editor window?
Q2: Has anyone used CKE in combination with jQuery? The form serialization function of jquery only grabs the data for standard form elements. It fails to fetch the content from CKE's iframe. Any idea how to make this work?

Thanks,
m^e

Hi - we're all drooling here for the official release of CKEditor... any update on when a production release might be coming? Thanks much

I may have missed this, but is the image/file upload disabled at the moment or does it require further configuration on my end to enable it?

BTW: This is a great piece of software, event at this early stage. Kudos to all those who have been working so hard on it.