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Looking for a rich text editor(textbox) like in SharePoint?

Hi,

I think answer is no but let me ask.
I am looking for a rich text editor instead of a regular text box in asp.net 2.0 to keep formats of the text.
I am using the asp.net 2.0 textbox but text always shows in a single line.
I want something like a textbox in the SharePoint page.

Here is the problem. I am not able to use other third party tools or framework.
All I have are VS 2005 (no vs 2008 yet) and .net framework 2.0 and 3.5.

I do have the SharePoint site. So is it possible to create something like that with what I have.
Thanks.

Ashley Bryant

You can change the size of the textbox quite easily (see below). If you want to make some sort of rich text editor though...whew...that's a tall order.

<asp:TextBox id="TextBox1" runat="server"
    Width="300px" 
    Height="100px" 
    TextMode="Multiline" />

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Ashley Bryant

Just out of curiosity, why can't you use any third-party solutions? There are quite a few of them out there that are free.

RTE (Rich Text Editor ASP.NET Control)
FreeTextBox
AjaxControlToolkit has an HTML Editor.

dkim18

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Just not allow to use them at this time.

Anyway, by any chance is ajaxcontroltoolkit a part of default AJAX framework?
Thanks for your input.

Ashley Bryant

No, it's not part of the existing framework. It's a Toolkit that you can download from Codeplex. Codeplex is a site owned and run by Microsoft that only distributes open source stuff. RTE and AjaxControlToolkit are both available there.

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dkim18

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Thanks a lot.