2. Introduction

2.1. What does it do?

The extension offers a Rich Text Editor or RTE with the following features:

1. Support for Firefox 0.8+, Mozilla 1.3.1+, Netscape 7.1+ and Safari 3.0.4+ on all platforms, and for IE5.5+ on Windows platforms;

2. Integration of TYPO3 image insertion and link insertion browsers, configurable color selector and user element insertion dialog;

3. Optional integration with the DAM media browser for image insertion;

4. Configuration through TYPO3 Extension Manager, Page and User TSConfig RTE properties; three default sets of Page and User TSConfig configuration settings for typical situations, advanced users or  demo environments;

5. Integration with the translation facilities of TYPO3;

6. Block and inline CSS style selector boxes with style descriptors imported from an external CSS file;

7. Integration of the SpellChecker htmlArea plugin providing spell checking in many languages, with optional personal dictionaries for backend users;

8. Integration of ContextMenu, TableOperations, InsertSmiley, FindReplace, RemoveFormat, CharacterMap, QuickTag and Acronym htmlArea plugins;

9. Anchor accessibility feature;

10. Hook on Lorem Ipsum wizard so that dummy content may be inserted when the editor is in wysiwyg mode;

11. Optional configurable server-side HTML cleaning when content is pasted into the editor;

12. A class that may be used in front end extensions to enable rich text editing of text fields.