CF8 - Textarea with wysiwyg

Disable unneeded features and fix special character issues in a ChronoForms textarea with WYSIWYG editor.

Overview

The problem is that the default editor includes unwanted features and can corrupt special characters like umlauts.
Add a custom data-settings attribute to the textarea, then define a corresponding JavaScript object to configure the editor with only the required features and proper character encoding.

Answered
ChronoForms v8
rb rbock 20 Aug, 2025

How do I disable features that aren't needed?

How do I switch to raw, since umlauts and special characters otherwise cause problems?

Max_admin Max_admin 20 Aug, 2025
Answer

Hi rbock

if you want to change the editor settings then add a data tag "data-settings" using the HTML attributes:

data-settings=my_settings

then using a JavaScript view you can create a variable named "my_settings" of type object to set your own editor settings

Max, ChronoForms developer
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