Activedit is a Custom Tag/Component, that gives web developers the ability to easily insert a WYSIWYG HTML editor into a web page. Activedit can be embedded into a HTML form and has similar properties of a textarea.

Activedit takes in a couple of attributes, such as name, the name of the form field that will store the HTML contents when you click submit. You pass these attributes, to Activedit via a Cold Fusion Custom Tag interface, which is a lot like calling a function, if you are familiar with other programming languages. Activedit uses a combination of ColdFusion/Java, Java Script, dHTML, and ActiveX to display the control on the web page. You can pass attributes that can change the color, size, or visibility of almost every object that the control uses. It uses the IE DHTMLEdit (DHTMLSafe) MSHTML Editor

Activedit can be used anyplace where you would normally use a HTML text area, and wanted to let your users format the data. There endless potential to what you can do with Activedit, but here are some examples.

• Content Management Systems
• Online web site builders
• Intranets
• Online Resume Builders
• Formatted Email Messages with <cfmail>

Activedit includes several features that allow for advanced formatting, such as?

• Insert and upload Images
• Open Source
• Spell Checking
• View / Edit Source Code
• Change fonts, and colors
• Insert Links to other web sites
• Align text
• Insert/Edit Tables
• Bold, Italics, and Underline
• Bullets

Well, you?ll like the answer to this one? not much! An entry level programmer could easily use the tool, here?s an example of how easy it is to use?