Visual Mode Prompt

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I've seen numerous people asking this in various places, yet I cannot seem to
find an answer.

How can I stop IE from prompting to 'Use Visual Mode' when clicking on a
textarea in a web page?

I have access to both the brower settings and the html source code, but I
desperately need to turn this off so it won't leave end users confused.

Thanks!
 
Hi,
More information, please ;-)
Are you creating the pages?
Are other users seeing this prompt when they visit the page?
Are you seing this prompt on numerous webpages that you visit, or on just
selected pages?
(Probably not relevant) Are you using the Vim text editor?

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
I am creating a small webform to automate some processes around the office.

In one of the html pages I create, there is a TEXTAREA control. If a user
using Internet Explorer clicks on the textarea to bring focus to it, a
dialogue box pops up with a prompt asking "Use Visual Mode?" (OK/Cancel).

If OK is selected, the textarea on the web page changes into a larger edit
field with a control bar across the bottom (with things like font size
changes, etc).

If cancel is selected, the form field acts like a normal text area input
field.

No, I'm not using VIM. ;)

The 'Visual Mode' is, as I understand it, a function of IE 6. (I don't
remember seeing it in IE 5)

Don Varnau said:
Hi,
More information, please ;-)
Are you creating the pages?
Are other users seeing this prompt when they visit the page?
Are you seing this prompt on numerous webpages that you visit, or on just
selected pages?
(Probably not relevant) Are you using the Vim text editor?

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

Rob Wagner said:
I've seen numerous people asking this in various places, yet I cannot seem to
find an answer.

How can I stop IE from prompting to 'Use Visual Mode' when clicking on a
textarea in a web page?

I have access to both the brower settings and the html source code, but I
desperately need to turn this off so it won't leave end users confused.

Thanks!
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Hi,
We've probably done the same Google searches, but...
Are you using PHP? I think that your page is giving the user the option to
use this enhanced editing mode. I don't think there's a switch in IE to turn
it off.

I found several PHP pages which warned that this option would be offered.
Some advised to accept the "Use Visual Mode" option some advised to reject
it.

This page
http://www.britishkodalyacademy.org...e=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1
was helpful to me in learning a little about the "Use Visual Mode" option.

Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
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