[TYPO3-RTE] make custom tag work in rtehtmlarea

[R. van Twisk]

Stanislas Rolland wrote:
> R. van Twisk a écrit :
> 
>> I got a little further down the road:
>>
>> This works now..
>> <rvt>Some Text</rvt>
>>
>>
>> however my attributes always get's lost:
>> <rvt someAttrib>Some Text</rvt>
>> <rvt someAttrib="value">Some Text</rvt>
>>
>>
>> In the above cases when I switch from source to HTML in rtehtmlarea,
>> My attribs are gone.
>>
> 
> The default processing configuration of rtehtmlarea uses the following 
> setting:
> RTE.default.proc.entryHTMLparser_db.keepNonMatchedTags = protect
> 
> This means that a tag that is not in the list of allowed tags will be 
> transformed into html entities. However, if you use the default 
> processing configuration, it should be transformed to normal characters 
> on the way to the database. This should allow the user to edit the tag 
> in html or wysiwyg mode. Yet, you should be able to configure frontend 
> rendering of the tag in whatever way you wish.
> 
> I would recommend not to include your custom tag in the list of tags 
> allowed in the RTE. In other words, not to edit the tags in text mode. 
> IE and Mozilla/Firefox will handle such tags in inconsistent ways, and 
> may not recognize any content between the opening and closing tags as 
> belonging to your element.
> 
> Regards,
> Stanislas
Stanislas ,

thanks you for your prompt response.

It works indeed like you said, never knew that. rtehtmlarea is full of 
secrets.

I think I did read it somewhere that it is also possibly to show my 
custom tag in rtehtmlarea in such a way that people can select it. Is 
that true?

Ries