HTML Rich Text Area is a browser plugin that enhances textareas with a user-friendly WYSIWYG editor, allowing users to easily format text in various styles. Its familiar Windows interface makes it accessible to all levels of computer users.
HTML Rich Text Area is a versatile tool that's perfect for web sites. It's great whether your goal is to set up message boards or gather customer feedback. It can also come in handy for HTML-based email generation for customer newsletters or even WYSIWYG web page authoring. The package even includes the tcpIQ Site Editor, which demonstrates how useful the HTML Rich Text Area can be for web page authoring.
One of the unique features of HTML Rich Text Area is the ability to add 'emoticons" to add an extra layer of emotion or emphasis to words or phrases. Additionally, users can also add bold, color, various fonts, and font sizes to their text. Another standout feature is that it runs totally on the client side. Any web server can be used, and no special configuration is required. To add to the flexibility, HTML Rich Text Area can be optionally combined with tcpIQ's other web tool.
Other features of HTML Rich Text Area include the ability to support multiple HTML Rich Text Areas per web page, great interfaces for the programmer to manipulate the HTML from Javascript, and an "Office XP look and feel." Additionally, the contents of the HTML Rich Text Area are posted just like a or. Installing and deploying the tool is straightforward, and there's even an image uploading and image library capability. Other features include optional dynamic resizing of the width, support for cascading style sheets, automatic conversion to HTML of text, and the insertion of either a
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For developers, there are plenty of powerful features included that make coding with HTML Rich Text Area easier. It's also worth noting that the package comes with the tcpIQ Site Editor software, which allows you to use the HTML Rich Text Area to edit your own web site online. With all these features and much more, the HTML Rich Text Area is an excellent addition to any web developer or web user's toolkit.
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