Author Topic: Set CiviCRM to be entirely plain text (Read 758 times)

Stuart Parker · March 30, 2011, 03:39:10 am

I'm having various problems with rich text formatting and have decided that i'd like all my content in CiviCRM to be plain text. One reason for this is that I want certain users to be able to encrypt sensitive data with a javascript plugin, but this doesn't work in a rich text editor, presumably due to javascript conflicts.

However, whenever text is displayed in CiviCRM, it assumes that it is rich text. This means that all plain text newlines are ignored when a text box is displayed (for example, in the Details of an activity) and therefore all the separate lines are concatenated into a single hard-to-read line.

I don't want my users to have to know html formatting when entering plain text.

Is there a way of configuring all the viewing screens so that they will display text boxes as plain text rather than rich text?

xavier · March 30, 2011, 10:12:34 am

Not sure where it's best to do it, when you read/display of when you save it.

I don't know if there is a single code where you could add that for every textarea content:
1) check if the text is text only (strip_tags (text) == text is probably the safest)
2) run a nl2br to add the html new lines

Or you could add it on the javascript side.

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Author Topic: Set CiviCRM to be entirely plain text (Read 758 times)

Stuart Parker

Set CiviCRM to be entirely plain text

xavier

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