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The Editor field type provides a WYSIWYG editor.

• type (mandatory) must be editor.
• name (mandatory) is the unique name of the parameter.
• label (mandatory) (translatable) is the descriptive title of the field.
• width (optional) defines the width (in pixels) of the WYSIWYG editor and defaults to 100%. (Currently not supported)
• height (optional) defines the height (in pixels) of the WYSIWYG editor and defaults to 250px. (Currently not supported)
• cols (optional) defines the width of the editor (in columns). (Currently not supported)
• rows (optional) defines the height of the editor (in rows). (Currently not supported)
• buttons (optional) can be an array of plugin buttons to be excluded or set to false. The default editors-xtd are: article, image, pagebreak and readmore.
• hide (optional) array of plugin buttons to be hidden. E.g. set buttons="true" hide="readmore,pagebreak"
• editor specifies the editor to be used and can include two options. (editor="desired|alternative")
• filter (optional) allow the system to save certain HTML tags or raw data.

Example XML Definition

<field name="test1" type="editor" label="Test Field" description="" width="300" filter="safehtml" />

See Also

• Textarea form field type
• Table of all standard form field types