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It's showing fine for me in FF3.5, Opera, Safari, and Chrome, but the text controls are not showing at all in IE7 at the default Medium-High setting.

# sirkitree.net-wysiwyg_ckeditor_combo_with_three_patches-2009.09.23.txt

I find myself here having followed a link at planetdrupal..

"CKEditor 3.0 and WYSIWYG API 2.0
Sirkitree - August 22, 2009 - 09:01"

Prior to Drupal, all my sites were static hand coded html / css.

I am more than a little intriqued as I think that my months of doubt and headaches from trying to implement WYSIWYG on Drupal 6 may be over; if I were to follow your five steps.

I want a wyaiwyg editor for my guests, most definitely; and I understand that I can switch to a text only editing mode for myself on an "as needed basis".

But what I really want is to be able to hand code the HTML "on-site", if I find it necessary or desireable, and keep the line-break and spacing system I use intact-- instead of my code being compressed according to someone elses scheme.

It would be nice if I did not have to juggle html files on my system for each page on my site just to keep my preferred spacing format.

Is my dream possible with any combination of Drupal modules / editors that you are aware of; or have ever heard of?

Abandoning for now the hope of ever finding a "leave my text as I had it" solution, I am still looking for an immediate solution to implementing wysiwyg; and I would like to try what you have recommended.

Since you confidently undertook the installation above-- even with SC in hand-- you are Guru status in comparison to me.

: o )

All of my five previous drupal sites have been test sites; abandoned as I "try again"; and my present site is a test site as well.

I will attempt to replicate your suggested installation.

(1.)
Install Wysiwyg module so that, as an example, I have the following file:
my-bluehost-site.com/(drupal_6.13)/sites/all/modules/wysiwyg/wysiwyg.api.php

I am curious if I am correct that I could have-- or please tell me if I should have-- installed it instead so that, as an example, I would have had the following file:
my-bluehost-site.com/(drupal_6.13)/modules/wysiwyg/wysiwyg.api.php
..Or, whether that higher level installation location is, as I understand it, potentially a site-breaker via other module conflicts. ?

I enable the wysiwyg module; and disable the FCKeditor previously installed. And just for good luck, I "uninstall" FCKeditor after un-enabling via the "'Uninstall' tab" page.

Note: I have "Other" modules 'Global Redirect', 'Front Page', IMCE, and poormanscron enabled.

And while I am thinking about FCKeditor, I can not delete the FCKeditor file path from two previous Drupal test installations; and on the most recent, I even "uninstalled" FCKeditor from "Administer" >> "Site Building" >> "Modules": "'Uninstall' tab" after I first un-enabled it. I then unistalled Drupal via cPanel Simple-Scripts; and I then tried to delete the old "Drupal Installation" folder in bulk via cPanel-- but FCKeditor will not die and is the only folder path reamining; and FTP will not kill it either. Any thoughts?

(2.)
Install ckeditor 3.0 so that, as an example, I have the following file:
my-bluehost-site.com/(drupal_6.13)/ckeditor/_samples/index.html

This choice of locations for me I based on information from the ckeditor/INSTALL.html page:

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"Extract (decompress) the downloaded file into the root of your web site."

...

"For example:
http://www.example.com/ckeditor/_samples/index.html"

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I am curious if I am correct that this top level folder installation is the required installation location;

..or if I might have installed it deeper with a minimal of, or no, other site code changes;

..or if this is even the proper placement, as I do not remember ever having extracted any non-core Drupal items in the Root.

?

This test is recommended in the ckeditor/INSTALL.html page: ..

my-bluehost-site.com/(drupal_6.13)/ckeditor/_samples/index.html

Do I properly assume that this is Not a true test, but rather is meant to simply be a test of proper file location?

That page displays; and that page links to visions of splendor and happy wysiwyg days: Truly Brain Candy for me; and so I seek Oz further.

"Site configuration" >> "Input Formats": Full HTML: all Filters de-selected.

"Site configuration" >> "Wysiwyg":..

.. This reads, "There are no editor libraries installed currently."

..and that has to be trouble.

Heavy sigh.

3., 4., and 5. Um... So much for my dreams of a quick installation and testing. .lol.

How in the world do I apply these fine pieces of clean code? Answer: http://drupal.org/node/534548.

I'll figure this out, I am relatively sure.

But where above in steps 1 or 2 have I gone wrong?

It is really madening, if you can believe it.

Thanking you ahead of time for any thoughts at all; and thank you for your time.

- Chris

### sirkitree.net-wysiwyg_ckeditor_combo_with_three_patches-2009.09.23.txt

where does the ckeditor.inc file come into play? also I am getting an error about /sites/all/modules/wysiwyg/editor/js/ckeditor-3.0.js ... any ideas? I'd love to get CKeditor working... when I enable it I am only getting a blank box where my CKeditor should be, no buttons nothing, even though I've configured/enabled the buttons properly from what I can tell in the wysiwyg API configuration section = admin/settings/wysiwyg/profile.

little help?

thanks for the good document! I am almost there, just missing these last 2 steps...

Hi: 2009.aug.30. I have diffilculty with applying the 3 patcjes for CKeditor support. Will you be so kind pto post here the already patched ckeditor.inc and ckeditor.js and please let me know where shoul I put them also what will be a plce for CKeditor libraries or modules Thank you very much John

great

rather cool editor