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List of WebHtmlEditor’s Toolbar Buttons

The following table is a full list of the WebHtmlEditor™ toolbar buttons (in the order that they appear on the UI), along with a description of the toolbar button.

Button Button Name Toolbar Category Description
bold.gif

Bold

General-Purpose Toolbar

Strengthens text by applying bold formatting using the <strong> tag.

italic.gif

Italic

General-Purpose Toolbar

Emphasizes text by applying italicized formatting using the <em> tag.

underline.gif

Underline

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats content with a line beneath the text.

strikethrough.gif

Strikethrough

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats content with a horizontal line struck through the text.

subscript.gif

Subscript

General-Purpose Toolbar

Applies subscript formatting (font size is reduced and text is lowered beneath the baseline).

superscript.gif

Superscript

General-Purpose Toolbar

Applies superscript formatting (font size is reduced and text is elevated above the baseline).

cut.gif

Cut

General-Purpose Toolbar

Removes the selected text content from the edit pane and posts it to the client-side clipboard. If the content is not subsequently pasted from the clipboard (either elsewhere in the edit pane, or to another destination on the user’s machine), then the content will be lost.

copy.gif

Copy

General-Purpose Toolbar

Copies the selected text content to the client-side clipboard.

paste.gif

Paste

General-Purpose Toolbar

Pastes text content as is from the client-side clipboard.

undo.gif

Undo

General-Purpose Toolbar

Reverses the most recently performed operation (except another Undo). To reverse an Undo, see the Redo button description.

redo.gif

Redo

General-Purpose Toolbar

Repeats the prior operation that had been undone by Undo.

justifyleft.gif

LeftJustify

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats text with left justification. This causes lines of text to align neatly against the left margin, however lines can appear jagged on the right side.

justifycenter.gif

CenterJustify

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats text with center justification. Lines of text are padded approximately equal distances from the left and right margins.

justifyright.gif

RightJustify

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats text with right justification. This causes lines of text to align neatly against the right margin, however lines can appear jagged on the left side.

justifyfull.gif

Justify

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats proportionally-spaced text with full justification. Whitespace within lines will appear to expand such that text content appears aligned to both right and left margins. This formatting is subject to Web browser support.

indent.gif

Indent

General-Purpose Toolbar

Indents the text content from the left margin.

outdent.gif

Outdent

General-Purpose Toolbar

Outdents the text content towards the left margin. This formatting has no effect if the text content was not previously indented.

unorderedlist.gif

UnorderedList

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats text as an unorder list. An unordered list (or bulleted list) implies the sequence of list items is insignificant.

orderedlist.gif

OrderedList

General-Purpose Toolbar

Formats text as an ordered list. An ordered list can use numbering, and implies the sequence of list items has importance.

insertrule.gif

InsertRule

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to select the type of horizontal rule they would like inserted into the document at their current position.

fontcolor.gif

FontColor

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a color palette dialog box from which the end user can pick a color to use as the foreground color, either for subsequent input or for a selected range of text. Color changes produce HTML <font> tags.

fonthighlight.gif

FontHighlight

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a color palette dialog box from which the end user can pick a color to use as the background color for text, effectively as if the text had been highlighted. Background color changes produce HTML <span> tags.

specialcharacter.gif

SpecialCharacter

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows the dialog box allowing the end user to select a special character. These characters are normally unavailable or difficult to enter with many keyboards.

inserttable.gif

Insert Table

Menu Toolbar

Displays a menu from which users can choose commands related to HTML <table> tags.

toggleborder.gif

ToggleBorders

General-Purpose Toolbar

Toggles whether borders are shown for the HTML <table> element that is selected (or if not selected, at the current caret position).

insertlink.gif

InsertLink

General-Purpose Toolbar

Inserts a hyperlink at the current caret position.

removelink.gif

RemoveLink

General-Purpose Toolbar

Removes a hyperlink at the current caret position.

save.gif

Save

General-Purpose Toolbar

Raises a postback to the Web server. On the Web Server, your application retrieves content from the WebHtmlEditor control using the Text property, and should then perform actions consistent with saving the user’s changes.

open.gif

OpenFile

Upload Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to select a file from their local file system.

preview.gif

Preview

General-Purpose Toolbar

Pops up a preview browser window showing the end user how the current content from the edit pane would appear in a stand-alone HTML document. The browser used for preview will be the same as the browser that currently displays the WebHtmlEditor control.

findreplace.gif

Find Replace

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows the Find and Replace dialog box allowing the end user to search the edit content pane for text content, and optionally replace matches with new text content.

insertbookmark.gif

InsertBookmark

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a dialog box that allows the end user to insert a bookmark at their current position.

insertimage.gif

InsertImage

Upload Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to attach an image file to their document.

insertflash.gif

InsertFlash

Upload Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to attach flash media to their document.

insertwindowsmedia.gif

InsertWindowsMedia

Upload Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to attach a Windows media file to their document.

help.gif

Help

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a Help dialog box for your WebHtmlEditor application. If you do not plan to customize the information that this dialog box will display for your application, then it is recommended that you remove the Help button from the WebHtmlEditor control.

cleanword.gif

CleanWord

General-Purpose Toolbar

Cleans extraneous tags typically introduced by Microsoft®Word from the content within the editor pane.

wordcount.gif

WordCount

General-Purpose Toolbar

Displays a pop-up with a count of the number of words, and the number of characters, in the current content.

pastehtml.gif

Paste-Html

General-Purpose Toolbar

Pastes text content (stripped of HTML tags) from the client-side clipboard.

zoom.gif

Zoom

Menu Toolbar

Displays a menu used to select the degree to which the editor content zooms out (becomes smaller) or zooms in (becomes larger). The zoom does not affect the actually size of the HTML.

togglepositioning.gif

TogglePositioning

General-Purpose Toolbar

Toggles HTML elements between absolute and relative positioning.

bringforward.gif

BringForward

General-Purpose Toolbar

Moves an HTML element to the foreground by increasing its z-index value.

sendbackward.gif

SendBackward

General-Purpose Toolbar

Moves and HTML element towards the background by decreasing its z-index value.

custom.gif

CustomButton

General-Purpose Toolbar

Custom toolbar button with an image, ToolTip and behavior tailored to your Web application. Your client-side script should perform a custom action when the user clicks any custom button.

Note
Note:

This button does not appear on the toolbar by default.

print.gif

Print

General-Purpose Toolbar

Sends the content of the WebHtmlEditor edit pane to a client-side printer, if available.

Note
Note:

This button does not appear on the toolbar by default.

custom.gif

CustomDialogButton

Dialog Box Toolbar

Shows a pop-up dialog box with custom content that you can tailor to your Web application.

Note
Note:

This button does not appear on the toolbar by default.

custom.gif

CustomMenuButton

Menu Toolbar

Displays a custom menu populated with selections specific to your Web application.

Note
Note:

This button does not appear on the toolbar by default.

upload.gif

UploadFile

Upload Toolbar

Shows a dialog box allowing the end user to upload arbitrary files to the Web server. WebHtmlEditor does not add any HTML markup to the document associated with this file. Users attaching these files to their documents must make a manual reference to the URL at which your application stores their uploaded file.

Note
Note:

This button does not appear on the toolbar by default.