CFTEXTAREA

The <cftextarea> tag gives you a rich text editing tool.

It is based on fckeditor which was a forerunner to ckeditor.

fckeditor is no longer supported.

Here I am going to use ckeditor to achive the same thing as <cftextarea>.

Firstly <cftextarea>.

cftextarea

Listing 1 : cftextarea.cfm

<cfparam name="textarea_1" default="">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>CFTEXTAREA</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/custom.css">
</head>
<body>
    <cfoutput>
        <cfform name="frmExample">
            <div id="cftextarea_content">
                <cftextarea name="textarea_1" richtext="true" toolbar="Basic">
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                </cftextarea>
            </div>
            <cfinput type="submit" value="Update" name="frmExample_submit"/>
        </cfform>
        #textarea_1#
    </cfoutput> 
</body>
</html>

And now the alternative to <cftextarea>.

cftextarea alternative

Listing 2 : index.cfm

<cfparam name="textarea_1" default="">
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>CFTEXTAREA Alternative</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/custom.css">
</head>
<body>
    <cfoutput>
        <div id="content">
            <form name="frmExample" >
                <textarea id="textarea_1" name="textarea_1">
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                </textarea>
                <input type="submit" value="Update" name="frmExample_submit"/>
            </form> 
        </div>
        #textarea_1#
    </cfoutput>
    <script src="//cdn.ckeditor.com/4.4.3/standard/ckeditor.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        CKEDITOR.replace('textarea_1');
    </script>
</body>
</html>

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