Inserting a <form> </form>

It looks like the wysiwyg editor (tinyMCE) strips those out by default. If you're comfortable editing the PHP you can turn that feature off. Here's how:

- Open /lib/menus/default/edit_functions.php
- Make a backup copy of that file
- Search for 'entity_encoding'
- After that line, add this line (in red):

entity_encoding : "raw", // ...
extended_valid_elements : "form[action|accept|accept-charset|enctype|method]",

Then save that file and reload your editor and you should be able to enter form tags in the HTML.

Hope that helps, let me know if you have any further problems with that or need more assistance.

Hi Dave,
Thanks - getting there I think.

That seems to keep my form opening and closing tags but now my <input> <textarea> and <select> bits of the form are being stripped out.

Sounds like you'll have to repeat the above process for each of the form entities you don't want the editor to strip out. On the plus side, you only have to do this once... until the next update. [;)]

J.

There's some more docs on these configuration options here:
http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration/valid_elements
http://wiki.moxiecode.com/index.php/TinyMCE:Configuration/extended_valid_elements

But for a quick fix, this should allow all tags:

entity_encoding : "raw", // ...
extended_valid_elements : "*[*]",

I tested it locally and that worked with the input, textarea and other tags. Let me know if it does the trick.