You have a DNN theme that utilizes Bootstrap 4 and Google’s Open Sans web font (a sans serif font) as the default font, along with a whole host of custom styles. Before we do, lets start with some basics settings, that many DNN admins are simply unaware of, that can make working with the HTML editor more enjoyable. In this series on working with CKEditorProvider, we will cover some of those customization challenges. This makes following the CKEditor documentation to configure some CKEditorProvider customizations problematic. However, where CKEditor relies heavily on config files to customize the editor, CKEditorProvider stores its setting in the CKE_Settings table in the DNN database.

Logically you would think that you could turn to the CKEditor Ecosystem Documentation, as CKEditor 4 is the core of DNN Connect’s CKEditorProvider. The latest version of the DNNConnect.CKEditorProvider uses CKEditor v4.5.3.įor the default HTML editor provider that ships with DNN 8 and 9, there is a surprising lack of documentation considering the HTML module is arguably one of the most heavily used modules in most CMSs, and DNN is no acceptation. In DNN v8.0.0, CKEditorProvider became the default HTML editor provider, replacing the long used Telerik RadEditor. In 2015 DNN Connect took CKEditor 4, and packaged it up as a DNN HTML provider to create CKEditorProvider, which can be found here. TelerikEditorProvider (Telerik RadEditor) Different DNN versions have incorporated different default HTML Editor Providers over the years. A big benefit of CKEditor is that it has a rich feature set built-in by default, but it also allows you to add plugins (such as a content accessibility checker, or one to insert Font Awesome icons) to further expand its capabilities and functionality.ĭNN on the other hand is no basic web page or app, and requires its HTML editor to be in the form of a provider to be used within the HTML module. In 2012 it was completely redesigned and renamed to CKEditor 3, and in 2018 it was rewritten from scratch for CKEditor 5. It was created in 2003 by Frederico Caldeira Knabben and was called FCKEditor. 1 Smart WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor for web pages and web apps. In a multi-part series I hope to clear up some of the mystery by showing you how to customize the CKEditorProvider to streamline your (or your clients) html module workflow, and to put the WYS back into WYSIWYG! CKEditor vs CKEditorProvider OverviewĬKEditor is the self proclaimed No. Even worse, If you have ever tried customizing CKEditorProvider‘s settings, you may have noticed that it is not always as straight forward as you would think, or like it to be.

When working with DNN’s default HTML editor, “CKEditorProvider” by DNN Connect, the default settings out of the box leaves much to be desired.

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