rtePad is a feature packed rich text editor, below is a summary of the sort of rich text editing capabilities you and an end user can expect from rtePad. Along with what is listed below there are many other cool little features and finishing touches on existing features which are great to have. We are always looking for new suggestions so if you have an idea feel free to let us know.
Text formatting is simple with rtePad, it works exactly the same way as it does in Microsoft Word® allowing you to perform subtle alterations or advanced text modifications with ease and consistency. For example you can easily modify the currently selected text to change its appearance in many ways.
rtePad supports the following text formatting options.
Unlike most other editors that use the built in web browser functions to perform these formatting options and later use cleanup functions to clean up the messy code that has been produced which results in inconsistent and messy non semantic code at best (especially when multiple web browsers are used by several people on the same block of content), rtePad uses its own Javascript DOM-Based functions to achieve the same functionality ensuring that the code will ALWAYS be XHTML Strict 1.0 compliant and always be consistently the same regardless of which web browser the user is using.
New and exclusive to rtePad is a style picker similar to the one seen in Microsoft Word® 2007.
Other editors will allow you to insert block items only such as header tags in this fashion and due to bugs in web browsers, this process does not always apply the operation to only the text you have selected and is limited in the types of tags that can be inserted.
Using the same Javascript DOM-Based functions that are used for basic text formatting we have been able to overcome this constant browser inconsistency problem that many other editors suffer from.
You will know for sure that what you see IS what you get.
By using the same DOM functions that are used for formatting text we are also able to offer many common paragraph formatting options that work the same way across all supported browsers.
rtePad can do the following behaviors on a selected paragraph and some block elements such as images.
Along with being able to insert/edit regular hyperlinks, rtePad is able to do more.
rtePad has a nice and easy to use interface for inserting and managing images within a document including the ability to upload images to your server and adding advanced attributes that normally cannot be added within rich text editor environments.
rtePad also allows you to manage flash objects on the page in a similar fashion to how images are managed. Including the ability to upload flash files and reference to them and controlling advanced flash only attributes.
No longer do managing tables have to be a burden to deal with as is normally the case. All the normal table options you would come to expect from a desktop WYSIWYG environment are now here in your browser including advanced operations such as merging and splitting table cells and editing the properties of a row or cell or even the table itself.
rtePad supports all of the normal HTML form elements such as checkboxes/select menus/textareas/input fields and submit buttons just to name a few. Using these tools it is possible for customers to be able to build their own forms for use in things such as contact forms, or just to make your life easier and save having to hand code an entire contact form. All common attributes are supported and can easily be utilized for building simple or advanced forms.
New to rtePad is the ability to do find and replace operations on particular references to a word or sentence within the document. This makes doing mass find and replace operations easy!
Due to numerous problems with browser interpretations of undo/redo actions, the default browser undo/redo stack cannot be trusted! We have built a custom undo/redo stack to completely replace the browser based one which means that no matter what you are doing, rest assured it will be possible to undo or redo your last actions with no chance of losing content.
Available in previous versions was the ability to auto-save content at a specified interval similar to the way Google Gmail does (Which in itself is a cool addition to a web browser based rich text editor). To make this even better then in previous versions auto save now supports saving the undo/redo stack as well. What this means is that if a document is lost and needs to be recovered, all previous undo/redo document history is also available upon recovery also!
Also new to rtePad is the ability to turn rtePad into a full screen rich text editor to make editing large documents easier, all at the press of a button.