Brian Doner
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Brian Doner
asked on 12 Jun 2009, 08:06 PM
Hi, I don't understand the purpose of the preview mode. I had thought that if I were zoomed in and then went to preview mode, it would show me the display at 100%, without effecting my current zoom setting. All it ever really seems to do is disable the editor controls and remove table borders if there are any tables, and show everything else exactly the same. Am I missing something?
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Hi Brian,
To some extent your observation are correct - "by default" the editor does not do much more than what you have noticed. But, if needed, beneath the hood, the editor allows you to extend this behavior in a number of ways.
When *edit* table borders are hidden, in fact what happens is that the ContentAreaCssFile gets disabled. Now that IE7/IE8 are finally common, and IE6 is on the decline, this opens the door for visually more enhanced edit mode. For example, using CSS one can make visible elements such as anchors (<A name="sth"/>)., or (beginning of) P tags can be marked with an arrow.
Switching the modes also raises an event - OnClientModeChange - which allows the developer who has special requirements to execute code accordingly.
Certainly, if you need neither of those, and you wish to get rid of the preview mode you can easily do that by setting EditModes = "Design, Html", as described in the following demo:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/editmodes/defaultcs.aspx
Best wishes,
Tervel
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To some extent your observation are correct - "by default" the editor does not do much more than what you have noticed. But, if needed, beneath the hood, the editor allows you to extend this behavior in a number of ways.
When *edit* table borders are hidden, in fact what happens is that the ContentAreaCssFile gets disabled. Now that IE7/IE8 are finally common, and IE6 is on the decline, this opens the door for visually more enhanced edit mode. For example, using CSS one can make visible elements such as anchors (<A name="sth"/>)., or (beginning of) P tags can be marked with an arrow.
Switching the modes also raises an event - OnClientModeChange - which allows the developer who has special requirements to execute code accordingly.
Certainly, if you need neither of those, and you wish to get rid of the preview mode you can easily do that by setting EditModes = "Design, Html", as described in the following demo:
http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-ajax/editor/examples/editmodes/defaultcs.aspx
Best wishes,
Tervel
the Telerik team
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