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How to deal with ' or (') in CKeditor

You can turn off html encoding for CKeditor through UI (i.e >= 4.7) Navigate to Administer >> Customize Data and Screens >> Display preferences Scroll down until you see Configure CkEditor button. ...
Pradeep Nayak's user avatar
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How do I center images or align text via CKEditor? Can I add more functionality?

A frustration I have had with CiviCRM has been the inability to center images or align text without modifying source code. This frustration was recently resolved by visiting Administer -> Customize ...
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Directory not replaced with site name?

I just found and fixed the same problem. There are two possible fixes to this problem, only one of which is available to you immediately. As per usual, Chris nails it. In your civicrm.settings.php ...
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CKEditor - add left, right, centre, justify buttons

It turns out this has a simple fix: add the 'Justify' plugin to Civicrm. Go to the CKEditor config screen: Administer > Customise data and screens > Display preferences > CKEditor config Then add ...
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Additional Fonts CKEditor

We had some more luck with the integrated UI configuration of CKeditor, and after some trial and error we came up with the following solution: In the following documentation I will assume that the ...
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Unable to use ckeditor after upgrade to 5.3.1

Do you have the Boxes contrib module enabled on your Drupal site? If so, your problem may be this: Issue #2175471: Incompatible with CiviCRM - CKEditor WYSIWYG does not load There is a patch ...
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Missing CKEditor & config button

There appears to be a recent bug, possibly introduced in 5.8 though I'm not certain, that affects the CKEditor, namely missing Configure CKEditor button and CKEditor itself won't appear. See this ...
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CKEditor can only edit user driven message templates

Jaap's comment is correct. It's unfortunately not possible to use a WYSIWYG editor on system templates because they're not (just) HTML, but contain Smarty code as well. Not only would Smarty break ...
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image directory path seems to be ignored in CiviMail editor

Ok, I've worked it out. And it turns out that there is a location where CKEditor settings can be configured, namely at civicrm/admin/ckeditor?preset=default. (Through the GUI it's at "Administer" -> "...
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CiviMail WYSIWYG not working

Based on the screenshots it looks like you've installed WP in it's own directory as opposed to the web root. Starting in Version 4.7.27 CiviCRM will detect if WP is installed in it's own directory ...
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crm.ckeditor.js not found

You can write the below code in civicrm.settings.php file to override the current value of [civicrm.root] token. global $civicrm_paths; $civicrm_paths['civicrm.root'] = array( 'url' => 'https://...
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How to restore the colour button in Ckeditor

If you go to civicrm/admin/ckeditor?reset=1 you should be able to activate the plugin "Colorbutton".
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Adding images in CKEditor

I forgot to post an answer before, but am prompted to do so as someone has a similar problem. I needed to set directory 755 and files 644 for wp-content/plugins/civicrm/civicrm/packages/kcfinder ...
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WYSIWYG editor disappeared in CiviCRM 4.7.16

Well, it works again through magic and voodoo. All I did was go to the Wordpress Access Control page as Christia recommended and clicked "Save". I didn't modify any settings. Just clicking "Save" ...
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Did anyone have a problem with CKEditor after 4.6.22 upgrade?

After checking my js console, I found my justify plugin folder was missing: ../civicrm/packages/ckeditor/plugins/justify <= folder missing I downloaded the plugin from here: http://ckeditor.com/...
Keith Webb's user avatar
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Error "Unknown Error" when uploading a file with CKEditor

I had the same case, the "clean" solution was to set an absolute path to Image Directory and the corresponding absolute URL to Image Upload URL
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How can I use <html>, <head>, <body> tags in a mailing?

Another option: Don't use those tags in your email. If you actually need a <title> in your email, sure, this isn't for you. For the majority of cases, it's unlikely those top-level tags ...
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How can I use <html>, <head>, <body> tags in a mailing?

There is a good, baked-in solution for this now. Thanks to work by Coleman: You can add the fullPage = true setting to the CKEditor configuration just for CiviMail in: Administer > Customize Data ...
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WYSIWYG editor disappeared in CiviCRM 4.7.16

What WYSIWYG editor are you using? IF CKEditor, reestablish roles and permissions for the CKEditor by going into the configuration settings for text editors on your CMS side and make sure it's still ...
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WYSIWYG stopped working in title tab

Solved. The problem was caused by the new theme we installed. The theme Super Mag is not compatible with Civi and will break of the wysiwyg functions. Once uninstalled it worked properly again.
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CKEditor WYSIWYG - Can't use link dialogue to create links (OK button doesn't work)

Try this: JQuery update settings: Set alternate jQuery version for admin pages to: 1.5 Make sure CiviCRM theme module is installed In Appearance -> set CiviCRM Administration theme to Adminimal (or ...
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KCFinder - Is there a way to allow the user to specify the upload folder? Or change the default?

Right-click on the "images" folder in the kcfinder browser. You can choose New Subfolder.
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CiviMail WYSIWYG not working

Not exactly, but I've seen WYSIWYG having problems on one of our sites due to incorrect loading of [cms.root] token in Resource URL. To check what's wrong. Look for the token populated by clicking on ...
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Unable to upload or view files through the CKEditor

I'm not sure this is an answer to your question, since you seem to have a specific error. Nevertheless, we've had a similar problem and so it may be helpful to hear our solution: When the file browser ...
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CKEditor not visible

Is your CiviCRM in a subdomain of the main WordPress site? If so it looks like the problem I had a while back. See WYSIWYG editor not present with WordPress for the details and my work around.
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CKEditor in Civicrm - Is it possible to have a custom css file?

If you use the great CKEDITOR editor to configure what you can there, then save, you can then edit the file in (typically, for a D7 implementation): sites/default/files/civicrm/persist/crm-ckeditor-...
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CKEditor does not display when editing event

My solution to my own earlier question: WYSIWYG editor not present with WordPress may provide an answer. If this was the cause of your previous problem it would have reverted on an upgrade. Is ...
Mick Kahn's user avatar
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Browsing for images in the editor leads to an unexpected Error

This is caused by a bug that prevents users that configure multiple languages to use the kcfinder plugin. So check if there are more available languages are configured at https:////civicrm/admin/...
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CKeditor security issue--does it impact CiviCRM and what to do?

See https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/20428 which will be in 5.38. But my quick read of it is that the addons affected are not installed by default.
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ckeditor + Drupal9 gives 403 Forbidden when browsing server

For two days, i couldn't get kcfinder working. After clicking on "browse server" it tries to load the link below and then gives http 403 forbidden. libraries/civicrm/packages/kcfinder/browse....
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