The HTML edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

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The HTML edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

Overview

How to?

Using the HTML formatting toolbar

See also

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Saving entered data (AAF)

Search the selected text on the Internet (AAF)

Setting the initial focus to a control (AAF)

Showing passwords (AAF)

The HTML edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

The RTF edit control: Automatic formatting toolbar

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Overview
How to?
Enabling the formatting toolbar for HTML controls
Feature available in AAF
Font used by default in the HTML 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. Formatting options are then automatically managed.

How to?

Enabling the formatting toolbar for HTML controls

To enable the formatting toolbar for HTML controls:

Open the description of an HTML edit control. The edit control is an "HTML text" control.
In the "General" tab, indicate whether the control uses an HTML toolbar:
The " Toolbar settings... " button is used to select the options offered by the toolbar.
Validate.

Feature available in AAF

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

Font used by default in the HTML toolbar

At runtime, the HTML toolbar is initialized with the font, size and font attributes specified in the control description. This font can be modified programmatically with the font properties.

Using the HTML formatting toolbar

Below is the default HTML bar:

This bar allows you to choose:

The font used and its size.
New in version 28
Remark: These options are also available as free-entry options.
The text-level semantics (div, h1, etc.).
The font characteristics (bold, underline, italic, strikethrough).
The font color.
The highlighting color.
The text alignment options.
The bullets and the numbering.
The right and left indents.
The subscript or superscript format.
The characteristics of links.
The characteristics of images.

New in version 28
You can also:

to insert arrays:
to choose the style of the inserted array.
display the HTML source code ().

Remark:
The colors available by default are the ones defined by the skin of the site. Simply click the desired color. This allows you to use consistent colors in the site.