Question

Using django-tinymce I have successfully embedded TinyMCE in the Admin before. Embedding it in a front-end form does not seem to work for me however.

I have a form which is a modelForm. It doesn’t add any extra fields (‘comment’ and ‘statement’ are the only fields used and they exist in the model). On the textarea field, ‘comment’, of that form I would like to use TinyMCE. I have tried the following:

class EntryForm(forms.ModelForm):
    comment = forms.CharField(widget=TinyMCE(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 30}, mce_attrs=TINYMCE_USER_CONFIG))

    class Meta:
        model = Entry
        fields = ['statement','comment',]

and

class EntryForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Entry
        fields = ['statement','comment',]

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(EntryForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['comment'].widget = TinyMCE(attrs={'cols': 80, 'rows': 15}, mce_attrs=TINYMCE_USER_CONFIG,)

and

class EntryForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model = Entry
        fields = ['statement','comment',]

    class Media:
        js = ('/media/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js',
                '/sitemedia/js/tinymce_setup.js',)

In the HEAD html tags I have put {{ form.media }} (the form is called form in the views and template). I am also using Grappelli and Filebrowser for the Admin.

Could someone please explain what I’m missing or the process of getting this to work?
Thanks very much!

Answer 1

To answer my own question:the last option works.

The problem was that `/sitemdia/js/tinymce_setup.js’ was a Grappelli setup file. This should only be used by the Admin. I removed that bit so I ended up with:

class Media:
    js = ('/media/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js',
            '',)

And in the header I added

<script type="text/javascript">
        tinyMCE.init({
                mode: "textareas",
                theme: "simple"
        });
</script>

You can also instead of removing the setup file insert another file that does work (with for example the tinyMCE.init bit of code in it).

That should do the trick :).