Restrict the editable region

What we are currently doing with the IE is offering an editor which allows only predefined areas of the page beeing edited, while the user still has the complete page visible.

Because with this the users get a real WYSIWYG feeling, while they are restricted to only the regions the template designer allowed them.

As far as I have ssen I don't know how I can do something similar with FCKeditor. Is this possible and if how can it be achieved....

Bye Yves

Tue, 06/15/2004 - 05:34

welly_uk

Joined: 15/06/2004

Posts: 1

RE: Restrict the editable region

Depending on how you're building this site, you could use an IFRAME which would contain the FCKeditor, and depending on whether the user is viewing or editing, the IFRAME would display in the section where the content will sit, with the editor available for use. You could do this fairly simply with ASP, JSP, .NET or whatever web technology you're using. If you need any further help with this, give me a shout and I'll try and answer any questions. It's not a difficult one is this though.

Fri, 08/13/2004 - 10:31

ryno267

Joined: 13/08/2004

Posts: 2

RE: Restrict the editable region

Iframe would be horrible and would kill any seo and xhtml compliance that your site did have.

Best thing to do at this point is have fckeditor edit the mid (content) section of the page which would be pulled into the index page through php (or asp too I guess) through includes and you'd have a somewhat dynamic site then. You may recognize these sites by the index.php?id=2 or something similar to that. This way you wouldn't have to worry about frames. And if you're worried about the seo issues with the ?id= tags, just do a mod_rewrite .htaccess to fix that.

This way you could keep any navigation and header / footer information very static and allow your clients to only modify thier individual content pages.

Frames/Iframes are just a very bad idea - and plain suck for standards sake and search engines hate em too.

-rYno