Question

I try to use the ckeditor but if I put e.g. the colorbutton plugin, the textarea disappears.
Here is how I tried:

CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1', {
                extraPlugins: 'colorbutton',
            } );

I tried other plugin but it was OK.

The colorbutton plugin works fine if I try to put only a file which is only a form with a textarea.
But the above I try to put in my site where are a more complex form and after that, the textarea disappears…

why? Something wrong with my solution?

Answer 1

Are you using CKEditor 4?

If yes, then there is a chance that the colorbutton plugin (or one of its dependencies) is simply missing in your package.

Check what errors do you have in Firebug. Is the plugin is missing, you should see something like

[CKEDITOR.resourceManager.load] Resource name "colorbutton" was not found