The HTML edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

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Overview
How to proceed?
Enabling the formatting toolbar for the HTML controls
Feature available in AAF
Font used by default in the HTML toolbar
Disabling the HTML formatting toolbar
Using the HTML formatting toolbar

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The HTML edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

Overview

In the HTML edit controls, a formatting toolbar can be automatically displayed as soon as the control becomes editable. The formatting options are automatically managed.

How to proceed?

Enabling the formatting toolbar for the HTML controls

To enable the formatting toolbar for the HTML controls:

Display the description of an HTML edit control.
- The edit control is an "HTML" control.
- The edit control is an "HTML text" control.
In the "General" tab, specify whether the control is using an HTML toolbar:
- In WINDEV:
- In WEBDEV:
  The "Configuring the toolbar" button is used to select the options proposed by the toolbar.
Validate.

Feature available in AAF

In an HTML edit control, the end user can enable the formatting toolbar via "HTML formatting toolbar" from the popup menu of edit control.

In an HTML edit control, the HTML toolbar is always visible or it is automatically displayed (depending on the option selected in the "General" tab of the description window of control).

Font used by default in the HTML toolbar

At run time, the HTML toolbar is initialized with the font, the size and the font attributes specified in the control description. This font can be modified by programming with the properties for font management.

Disabling the HTML formatting toolbar

To avoid displaying the "HTML formatting toolbar" option in the popup menu of the edit control, use AAFDisable (or DisableAAF) with the aafRTFToolbar constant.

Caution: This function will also disable the formatting toolbar of RTF controls.

Using the HTML formatting toolbar

The HTML toolbar is as follows:

This bar allows you to choose:

The font used and its size.
The font characteristics (bold, underlined, italic, strikeout).
The font color.
The highlighting color.
The characteristics for text alignment.
The characteristics of links.
The characteristics of images.

The keyboard shortcuts that can be used to format the text are as follows:

Italic: Ctrl + I
Bold: Ctrl + G
Underlined: Ctrl + U or Ctrl + _ (underscore, below the 8 key)
Struck out: Ctrl + - (dash, below the 6 key)
Highlighted: Ctrl + H

The "Color" button does not reflect the color of the selection: it corresponds to the last value selected by the user.

The default HTML bar is as follows:

This bar allows you to choose:

The font used and its size.
Versions 17 and later
The text-level semantics (div, h1, etc.).
New in version 17
The text-level semantics (div, h1, etc.).
The text-level semantics (div, h1, etc.).
The font characteristics (bold, underlined, italic, strikeout).
The font color.
Versions 17 and later
The highlighting color.
New in version 17
The highlighting color.
The highlighting color.
The characteristics for text alignment.
The bullets and the numbering.
The right ant left indents.
The subscript or superscript feature.
The characteristics of links.
The characteristics of images.

Versions 17 and later
Remark:
The colors proposed by default are the ones used by the skin of the site. All you have to do is click the requested color. This allows you to use consistent colors in the site.

New in version 17
Remark:
The colors proposed by default are the ones used by the skin of the site. All you have to do is click the requested color. This allows you to use consistent colors in the site.

Remark:
The colors proposed by default are the ones used by the skin of the site. All you have to do is click the requested color. This allows you to use consistent colors in the site.

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