May
24
2006
Drupal + TinyMCE WYSIWYG Spellchecker
Posted by: dnorman in Uncategorized, tags: drupal, spelling, tinymce, wysiwygI have been tweaking some of the Drupal -powered sites used at the Teaching & Learning Centre, and in the process have updated the copy of TinyMCE that provides the WYSIWYG editor. While downloading the fresh library, I noticed a spellchecker plugin , so I grabbed a copy of that while I was there.
It seems to work great! It provides a new 
button in the editor, and clicking that triggers a call to the Google spelling service . Any mistakes are highlighted automatically and alternate spellings for these are provided by clicking on the highlighted word(s).
Very handy stuff. I've enabled it on some of our sites already, and will be rolling it out for the rest of them ASAP. Here's a screenshot of it in action:
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I feel that TinyMCE many a times produces really ugly HTML,hence why I don't use it. I like to use Ber Kessel's Quicktags module instead. For spellcheck Firefox has a great module that does the job well.
The html from the latest TinyMCE doesn't make my eyes bleed - it's even semantic markup! Much better than relying on people to enter valid html by hand…I'm not in love with quicktags. WordPress has them, but I only really used the image and hyperlink buttons. A tweaked TinyMCE module performs not badly - although now I notice that the spellchecker has thoughtfully disappeared…
That rules
I tried and tried and never was able to get this working.
Keep getting an XML error. Did you have to do any tricks to get this working?
I’ve tried a whole lot of tricks posted all over the net to get the Spell checker to work.. but no luck.