html editor not fully there!

html editor not fully there!

by Tim Grech -
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As an administrator, when adding/updating an assignment, I can’t add a description because the html editor controls are there (bold, italic etc) but the “white space” for writing is not. There isonly a button saying "Save Changes" but no place to make a change. 

The same happens as a teacher going to add comments to an assignment.

When I disallow the html editor. The white space appears, but the controls disappear. It also leaves behind all the old html tags (which you could previously not see).

Is htere a known bug? Maybe a clash with my settings?

Ihave attached a jpeg showing exactly what I mean where you can see there is no "white space" for editing/inserting comments.

We are using Moodle 1.5.3+ (2005060230)


Attachment moddlenoedit.jpg
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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Ashok Naidu -
HI ,

I am also facing the same problem. Some time the forum HTML editor not visible for my some of the users and they are not able to post the forums.

Please let us know  how we can resolve the this issue.

Thanks
Ashok Naidu
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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Art Lader -

Hi, Tim,

This is not a solution, just a little workaround until the problem is resolved: When this used to happen to me, I would just use the fullscreen editor. It worked like a charm was actually better because it had more table-formatting options.

Hope that helps a little bit for now.

Regards,
Art

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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Tim Grech -

Thanks - this is useful smile

Are there any solutions yet besides changin html code?

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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Tim Grech -
The problem seems to have been fixed by chaning themes. We were using Cornflower (suggested on another thread).
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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Art Lader -
> The problem seems to have been fixed by chaning themes.

Thank you for posting that solution, Tim. Good to know.

Regards,
Art
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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Tim Grech -
No problems - did it work for you? Were you also using Cornflower?
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Re: html editor not fully there!

by Donal McMullan -
Hey guys - we had a similar problem on a client site - I pulled the patch we used to deal with it and it looks like it makes a single change to the file:

lib/editor/htmlarea/htmlarea.php

The line:
width = parseInt(width);
was changed to:
width = Math.max(parseInt(width), 588);

I think this happened only in IE, and it seemed like IE was sometimes measuring the width of an element before it had actually been drawn on the page, and of course that width was effectively zero.

Anyway - not sure of the details. If this change isn't effective, you could try setting the height of the textarea to a hard-coded value, and see if that makes a difference for you, i.e. find/change:
height = parseInt(height);
to
height = 100;
...or something like that.

You can review the patch in Catalyst's Git repo.

Sorry I didn't see this issue earlier - I hope this works for someone.
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