Hi,

I'm new to the DNN platform and I'm having a lot of trouble configuring the HTML editor the way that I need it. The site is running DNN 7.3. I am building a custom skin for the site, which I have mostly ready. I am trying to get the styles from my skin stylesheet to show up in the editor and also have the CSS classes for my skin styles show up in the CSS Class dropdown in the editor without all of the extra styles that seem to be in there by default.

I've tried a number of things to get this working. I was told in post from the forum at DNN Hero and a tutorial there that I can create a css file called editor.css and drop it into my skin folder and the styles will show up in the editor. I tried that and it didn't work.

I found the following documentation: http://www.dnnsoftware.com/wiki/page/telerik-customization. I tried the instructions there, but the folder structure on my server doesn't match what it says in the documentation. There was no HTMLEditorProviders folder in the Providers folder, but I do have a RadEditorProvider folder under DesktopModules > Admin. I tried making the config edit suggested in the documentation and set my css file's name to be RadEditor.css, but it still did not change anything. 

I then went to the HTML Editor Manager page in the admin interface. I tried changing the css file setting to /editor.css, and changed my css file's name to editor.css and put it in the root of my skin's folder. It still didn't pick up my styles.

At this point I really need some assistance with some step by step instructions on how to get the HTML editor to load my styles and display them and also how to get the CSS Class dropdown to only display the styles from my stylesheet. Based on what I see in the HTML Editor Manager, the site is using the DotNetNuke.RadEditorProvider as the editor. I am not opposed to trying a different one if what I want to do is not possible with this editor or if it would be easier with a different one, but currently that seems to be the only option installed on my server, and I'm not sure how to install a different one.

Any assistance you can provide would be incredibly helpful and I'm sorry if this is posted to the wrong part of the forum, I just thought since I was new to DNN this was a good place to start.

Thanks,

Brian

Hi Brian,

Mitchel Sellers wrote a good blog on the Dnn Editor that might be worth a look:

http://mitchelsellers.com/blogs/2012/06/26/taking-control-of-the-dotnetnuke-wysiwyg-editor.aspx

It might help you out

Regards,

Geoff