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RTE¶

The RTE prefix key is used for configuration of the Rich Text Editor. Please refer to the RTE chapter in Core API document for more general information on RTE configuration and data processing.

Warning

Some explanations and descriptions may contain slightly obsolete references. The principles are still valid though.

The full property path building is a bit more complex than for other property segments. The goal is that global options can be set that can also be overriden in more specific situations:

Configure all RTE for all tables, fields and types:: RTE.default
Configure RTE for a specific field in a table: RTE.config.[tableName].[fieldName]
Configure RTE for a specific field in a table for a specific record type: RTE.config.[tableName].[fieldName].types.[type]

Consider the following Page TSconfig examples:

# Disable all RTEs
RTE.default.disabled = 1

# Disable all RTEs
RTE.default.disabled = 1
# Enable RTE for the tt_content bodytext field only
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.disabled = 0

# Disable all RTEs
RTE.default.disabled = 1
# Enable RTE for the tt_content bodytext field only
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.disabled = 0
# But disable RTE for tt_content bodytext again if the record type is "text"
RTE.config.tt_content.bodytext.types.text.disabled = 1

disabled¶

Datatype: boolean
Description: If set, the editor is disabled. This option is evaluated in \TYPO3\CMS\Backend\Form\FormEngine where it determines whether the RTE is rendered or not. Note that a backend user can also ultimately disable RTE's in his user settings.

proc¶

The proc section allows customization of the server processing of the content, see the transformation section of the RTE chapter in the core API document for more general information on server processing.

The proc properties are in \TYPO3\CMS\Core\Html\RteHtmlParser and are universal for all RTEs. The main objective of these options is to allow for minor configuration of the transformations. For instance you may disable the mapping between <b>-<strong> and <i>-<em> tags which is done by the ts_transform transformation.

Notice how many properties relate to specific transformations only! Also notice that the meta-transformations ts_css imply other transformations as explained in the overview. This means that options limited to ts_transform will also work for ts_css of course.

allowedClasses¶

Datatype

string with comma separated values

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

Direction: From RTE to database, saving a record.

Allowed general class names when content is stored in database. Could be a list matching the number of defined classes you have. Class names are case insensitive.

This might be a really good idea to do, because when pasting in content from MS word for instance there are a lot of <SPAN> and <P> tags which may have class names in. So by setting a list of allowed classes, such foreign class names are removed.

If a class name is not found in this list, the default is to remove the class.

allowTags¶

Datatype

string with comma separated values

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

Tags to allow. Notice, this list is added to the default list, which you see here:

b,i,u,a,img,br,div,center,pre,font,hr,sub,sup,p,strong,em,li,ul,ol,blo ckquote,strike,span

Note

This information is outdated, the default list depends on the used rte_ckeditor YAML configuraton.

allowTagsOutside¶

Datatype

string with comma separated values

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

Enter tags which are allowed outside of <P> and <DIV> sections when converted back to database.

Default

address, article, aside, blockquote, footer, header, hr, nav, section, div

Example

# Allow only hr tags outside of p and div
RTE.default.proc.allowTagsOutside = hr

blockElementList¶

Datatype: string with comma separated values
Description: Comma-separated list of uppercase tags (e.g. P,HR) that overrides the list of HTML elements that will be treated as block elements by the RTE transformations.

denyTags¶

Datatype

string with comma separated values

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

Tags from above list to disallow.

dontFetchExtPictures¶

Datatype

boolean

Description

Applies for ts_images only.

If set, images from external urls are not fetched for the page if content is pasted from external sources. Normally this process of copying is done.

dontRemoveUnknownTags_db¶

Datatype

boolean

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

Direction: From RTE to database, saving a record.

Default is to remove all unknown tags in the content going to the database. Generally this is a very useful thing, because all kinds of bogus tags from pasted content like that from Word etc. will be removed to have clean content in the database.

This property this disables that and allows all tags that are not in the HTMLparser_db list.

entryHTMLparser_db¶

Datatype

boolean / HTMLparser

Description

Applies to all kinds of processing.

Allows to enable / disable the HTMLparser before the content is processed with the predefined processors (e.g. ts_images or ts_transform).

entryHTMLparser_rte¶

Datatype

boolean / HTMLparser

Description

Applies to all kinds of processing.

Allows to enable / disable the HTMLparser before the content is processed with the predefined processors (e.g. ts_images or ts_transform).

exitHTMLparser_db¶

Datatype

boolean / HTMLparser

Description

Applies to all kinds of processing.

Allows to enable / disable the HTMLparser after the content is processed with the predefined processors (e.g. ts_images or ts_transform).

exitHTMLparser_rte¶

Datatype

boolean / HTMLparser

Description

Applies to all kinds of processing.

Allows to enable / disable the HTMLparser after the content is processed with the predefined processors (e.g. ts_images or ts_transform).

HTMLparser_db¶

Datatype

HTMLparser

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

These are additional options to the HTML parser calls which strips of tags when the content is prepared from the RTE to the database, saving a record. It is possible to configure additional rules like which other tags to preserve, which attributes to preserve, which values are allowed as attributes of a certain tag etc.

For the detailed list of properties, see the section of the TypoScript reference.

Note

This configuration is similar in frontend TypoScript and Page TSconfig. This is why single properties can be looked up in the TypoScript reference.

Also note the HTMLparser options keepNonMatchedTags and htmlSpecialChars are not observed. They are preset internally.

HTMLparser_rte¶

Datatype

HTMLparser

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

These are additional options to the HTML parser calls which strips of tags when the content is prepared from the database to the RTE rendering. It is possible to configure additional rules like which other tags to preserve, which attributes to preserve, which values are allowed as attributes of a certain tag etc.

For the detailed list of properties, see the section of the TypoScript reference.

Note

This configuration is similar in frontend TypoScript and Page TSconfig. This is why single properties can be looked up in the TypoScript reference.

Also note the HTMLparser options keepNonMatchedTags and htmlSpecialChars are not observed. They are preset internally.

keepPDIVattribs¶

Datatype

comma separated list of tag attributes

Description

Applies for ts_transform and css_transform only.

align and class are the only attributes preserved for <P> and <DIV> tags. This property allows to specify a list of other attributes to preserve.

overruleMode¶

Datatype: Comma list of RTE transformations
Description: This can overrule the RTE transformation set from TCA. Notice, this is a comma list of transformation keys.

plainImageMode¶

Datatype

boolean/string

Description

Applies for ts_images only.

If set, all "plain" local images (those that are not magic images) will be cleaned up in some way.

If the value is just set, then the style attribute will be removed after detecting any special width/height CSS attributes (which is what the RTE will set if you scale the image manually) and the border attribute is set to zero.

You can also configure with special keywords. So setting plainImageMode to any of the value below will perform special processing:

lockDimensions: This will read the real dimensions of the image file and force these values into the <img> tag. Thus this option will prevent any user applied scaling in the image!
lockRatio: This will allow users to scale the image but will automatically correct the height dimension so the aspect ratio from the original image file is preserved.
lockRatioWhenSmaller: Like lockRatio, but will not allow any scaling larger than the original size of the image.