editing content/adding content using TinyMCE

[DADOCTOR]

Hello,

I have been working on my cmsms project for a while now and it is almost ready to launch, I have decided to use cmsms to tie together my website which started as a forum. It now has a Blog (Wordpress) and the forum (vBulletin) linked together with cmsms.

I decided to look at a cms platform when vBulletin decided to make some changes to the software and management. (Bad move)

They integrated a cms/article system that did not give enough room for editing layout changes.

Anyway, I have found cmcms so it is ok now (I think)
I am having a bit of confusion with the text editor TinyMCE, after figuring out how to be able to copy and paste while using FireFox I have been getting used to it but I am a bit confused about the HTML Source editor and also the non wysiwyg.

I add code to the HTML editor and if it does not like the code it will automatically delete it or edit it to what it thinks it should be,
and with the non wysiwyg editor it will process my coding after I submit it but if I choose to edit that page again with the HTML editor it will remove or edit code and I dont want it to do that.

This is very frustrating and I dont know how to go about making this work, do I choose one way only to edit? why will it try to correct code? I love the template I have, and I am Liking cmsms

I hope that someone might be able to help me with some advice?

I also have a problem with the "Apply" button; it will not work when I am editing a page, but will work in all other areas like stylesheets. Whats the go with that?

I really need some encouragement and advice.

Thanks
Ryan

[Jos]

TinyMCE assumes that a user can not write html code. So it will convert any code that looks like html in a way that it is literally displayed in the frontend. Note that it is a wysiwyg-editor and it does exactly that: you get what you see

You have to configure your site in a way you do not need to fill the wysiwyg-editor with html code. In a template would be the proper place. Possibly you need more contentblocks to accomplish that.

Another way is to use global content blocks. You can set those individually to not make use of a wysiwyg editor. The global content block can be inserted in a wysiwyg field with a smarty tag.

Or maybe you add some tabular data into a page, then it's better to use a module to manage that data, and create a proper moduletemplate that does the html-coding and css styling for you.