Question

I have a site that uses the FCKEditor. I’d like to make an incredibly simple plugin: when a user selects text and then hits MyPluginIcon, the editor surrounds the text in a span tag with a specific class.

So it’s just like the Bold or Italic button, but for:

<span class='blah'>EtcEtc</span>

I am far from a JS expert, so I have been looking for a plugin to copy. I have looked in the FCK wiki but all the plugins I have found are really complex (file browsers and whatnot). Do you know of a super simple FCK plugin I can base my plugin off of?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Answering my own question! Hopefully if someone finds this in the future it will help.

I used the basic file from here: http://www.iondev.lu/fckeditor/netnoi.txt

I found-and-replaced the ‘netnoi’ with my own name, and uncommented the icon line to make an icon (16×16).

And the instructions on how to install it from here: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Customization/Plug-ins

Be sure to check that the plugins directory is correct — in drupal the plugins folder is different than a default FCK install.

EDIT: Apparently the netnoi.txt has gone missing. Here is what I used:

/***  * Create blank command  */ var FCKPixelCaps_command = function() {  }  /***  * Add Execute prototype  */ FCKPixelCaps_command.prototype.Execute = function() {         // get whatever is selected in the FCKeditor window         var selection = FCK.EditorDocument.getSelection();          // if there is a selection, add tags around it         if(selection.length > 0)         {                 FCK.InsertHtml('<span class='caps'>' + selection + '</span>');         } else {                 // for debugging reasons, I added this alert so I see if nothing is selected                 alert('nothing selected');         } }  /***  * Add GetState prototype  * - This is one of the lines I can't explain  */ FCKPixelCaps_command.prototype.GetState = function() {         return; }  // register the command so it can be use by a button later FCKCommands.RegisterCommand( 'PixelCaps_command' , new FCKPixelCaps_command() ) ;  /***  * Create the  toolbar button.  */  // create a button with the label 'Netnoi' that calls the netnoi_command var oPixelCaps = new FCKToolbarButton( 'PixelCaps_command', 'Pixels & Pulp Caps' ) ; oPixelCaps.IconPath = FCKConfig.PluginsPath + 'PixelCaps/caps.gif' ;  // register the item so it can added to a toolbar FCKToolbarItems.RegisterItem( 'PixelCaps', oPixelCaps ) ;