Editor form field type

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The Editor field type provides a WYSIWYG editor.

  • type (mandatory) must be editor.
  • name (mandatory) is the unique name of the parameter.
  • label (mandatory) (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.
  • width (optional) defines the width (in pixels) of the WYSIWYG editor and defaults to 100%. (Currently not supported)
  • height (optional) defines the height (in pixels) of the WYSIWYG editor and defaults to 250px. (Currently not supported)
  • cols (optional) defines the width of the editor (in columns). (Currently not supported)
  • rows (optional) defines the height of the editor (in rows). (Currently not supported)
  • buttons (optional) can be an array of plugin buttons to be excluded or set to false. The default editors-xtd are: article, image, pagebreak and readmore.
  • hide (optional) array of plugin buttons to be hidden. E.g. set buttons="true" hide="readmore,pagebreak"
  • editor specifies the editor to be used and can include two options. (editor="desired|alternative")
  • filter (optional) allow the system to save certain HTML tags or raw data.

Example XML Definition

<field name="test1" type="editor" label="Test Field" description="" width="300" filter="safehtml" />

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