Question

I have the following that I execute inline on a number of screens:

tinyMCE.init({
    // General options
    mode : "specific_textareas",
    editor_selector : "mceEditor",
    theme: "advanced",
    plugins: "autolink,lists,spellchecker,pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template",

    // Theme options
    theme_advanced_buttons1: "save,newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,|,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
    theme_advanced_buttons2: "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,|,insertdate,inserttime,preview,|,forecolor,backcolor",
    theme_advanced_buttons3: "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,emotions,iespell,media,advhr,|,print,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
    theme_advanced_buttons4: "insertlayer,moveforward,movebackward,absolute,|,styleprops,spellchecker,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,|,visualchars,nonbreaking,template,blockquote,pagebreak,|,insertfile,insertimage",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_align: "left",
    theme_advanced_statusbar_location: "bottom",
    theme_advanced_resizing: true,

    // Skin options
    skin: "o2k7",
    skin_variant: "silver",

    // Example content CSS (should be your site CSS)
    content_css: "css/example.css",

    // Drop lists for link/image/media/template dialogs
    template_external_list_url: "js/template_list.js",
    external_link_list_url: "js/link_list.js",
    external_image_list_url: "js/image_list.js",
    media_external_list_url: "js/media_list.js",

    // Replace values for the template plugin
    template_replace_values: {
        username: "Some User",
        staffid: "991234"
    }
});

I would like to move this into a file and then call it. Is there a simple way that I can do this?

Answer 1

Similiar to Xander‘s answer, but I would only store the options object globally.

window.tinyMCEOptions = {
    // General options
    mode : "specific_textareas",
    /* Your other options here.
     * Store in your favorite .js file and link your page to it.
     */
}

Then call tinyMCE.init like:

tinyMCE.init(window.tinyMCEOptions);

The advantage of this is that it allows you to change options easily:

window.tinyMCEOptions.content_css: 'css/different.css'
tinyMCE.init(window.tinyMCEOptions);