• Support for Firefox 0.8+, Mozilla 1.3.1+ and Netscape 7.1+ on all platforms, and for IE5.5+ on Windows platforms;
• Integration of TYPO3 image insertion and link insertion browsers
• Configurable colour selector and user element insertion dialog;
• Optional integration with the DAM media browser for image insertion;
• Configuration through TYPO3 Extension Manager, Page and User TSConfig
• RTE properties; three default/demo sets of Page and User TSConfig configuration settings for typical situations, advanced users or  demo environments which can be further modified as required;
• The configuration option enables administrators to specify the range of text effects which are available to each user, or user group ensuring that the site presentation is consistent.
• Integration with the translation facilities of TYPO3;
• Integration of the DynamicCSS and InlineCSS HTMLArea plugins providing CSS style selector boxes with style descriptors imported from an external CSS file;
• Integration of the Spell Checker HTMLArea plugin providing spell checking in many languages, with optional personal dictionaries for each back-end user.;
• Integration of ContextMenu, TableOperations, InsertSmiley, FindReplace, RemoveFormat, CharacterMap, QuickTag and Acronym HTMLArea plugins; Acronym plugin not currently available in IE;
• Anchor accessibility feature;
• Lorem Ipsum wizard so that dummy content may be inserted when the editor is in wysiwyg mode;
• Optional configurable server-side HTML cleaning when content is pasted into the editor;
• A class that may be used in front end extensions to enable rich text editing of text fields.

• Manual
• News Group
• css styles: you would normally link to a version of you site css stylesheet using page tsconfig, which you access through the  Page Properties. If you do this on your root page, the same styles will apply for all pages that are not specifically modified.

Implementation Notes

• The extension is supplied as standard with all recent distributions of TYPO3, and is installed globally. If you are updating it, make sure you install the update globally, too.
• Although a standard set of CSS styles is  provided, they clearly would not resemble those on your site. You can configure either your site CSS, or a modified version (omitting issues like background graphics) so that it forms the basis of the text formatting
• You need to develop a set of site styles (which may well be connected to your corporate styles) before you can restrict the RTE options so that users are constrained by the style guidelines.
• The easiest way to manage the RTE configuration is to apply the demo configuration in the first place. This gives the maximum number of bottons and options, and normally far too much freedom for a production site. Since everything is configured and working, you can easily comment out features you do not want at all, and reconfigure those that you do.

Extensions of the extension

The RTE has add-ins, such a spell-checkers, rather than extensions, which are configured in Page tsconfig, and it is normally called by other extensions to enable the entry of rich text.

• Normal
  Text and graphics are displayed and edited in wysiwyg mode
• Disabled
  Content is displayed and edited as pure html code. Unless there is something specific that you need to do, this  view is best left to experts.

This section is a list of extensions with similar functionality and/or objectives to the main extension.Only extensions with manuals are normally included.

RTE

This is the previous standard RTE. It relies on activex technology, and therefore will only work in Internet Explorer. HTMLArea RTE is more powerful, and shares all the same configuration, and more.

tinyRTE

Another RTE, this time supporting Mozilla, MSIE, FireFox, Opera and Safari.