So, I'm trying to understand the method behind the madness with this toolbar in Adv. HTML Editor 3. I've noticed a strange behavior when you are adding or editing a record with content in the editor window. Depending on where you click, whether it's within a word or just white space, the toolbar will gray out all the icons with the exception of just a couple icons.

For example, as I'm clicking around in the content of the editor window, doing edits, sometimes the toolbar looks like this:



and sometimes it looks like this:



It will toggle between these states constantly as I go about doing my edits. Not only is this extremely annoying but it's also very confusing, and it's downright misleading for my clients who will use this tool for updating content on their site. The grayed out buttons would have you believe that they are unusable, but that is not the case. You can still click them and they work, but I've never seen any other editor do this. It seems like there must be a reason behind it, so I'd love to hear what that is. More than that though, how do I get it to stop doing this?

For the record, this behavior is consistent across all current versions of IE, Chrome, and Firefox. I even tested IE versions 9 and 8 as well, with the same strange results.

Hello Steve,

Please provide a link to a page having this problem.

It's on a private set of tools for this customer and cannot be posted publicly. Please provide a private email so I can give you a link.

Please send the website to:

Just sent you the link.

Hello Steve,

What are the other scripts on your page?
There must be some piece of code affecting the click in the textarea. I just used your form code in this page and there is no problem:

www.dmxzone.com/demo/php/teodor/steve/ahe.php

Here's the part of the header with all the links to my css and scripts:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/cmsAdmin/css/adminStyles.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Styles/dmxEditor.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/ScriptLibrary/dmxEditor/iconsets/modern/modern.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/styles/dmxEditor/metal/metal.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ScriptLibrary/jquery-latest.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ScriptLibrary/dmxCalendar/dmxCalendar.js"></script>
<script src="/SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Styles/dmxCalendar/dmxCalendar.css" />
<link href="/SpryAssets/SpryValidationTextarea.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ScriptLibrary/dmxEditor.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ScriptLibrary/require.js"></script>

I am not only refering to the header includes but all of the scripts that you are using on your page?

Well, you can see everything in the view source except what's above the HTML, and here's all that.

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!--#include virtual="/Connections/dbconn.asp" -->
<!--#include virtual="/dwzUpload/DefineVariable.asp" -->
<
%'*********************************
'*                               *
'*  INSERT RECORD AND UPLOAD     *
'*  http://www.DwZone-it.com         *
'*                               *
'*********************************
	server.ScriptTimeout = 5400

	Dim RG_altVal, RG_columns, RG_Cong, RG_dbValues, RG_dbValuesTmp, RG_delim, RG_editCmd, RG_editQuery, RG_editQueryTmp, RG_emptyVal, RG_Ext, RG_Extensions, RG_fields, RG_FieldValueTmp, RG_FileDel, RG_FileExt, RG_formVal, RG_FS, RG_i, RG_L, RG_Len, RG_Max, RG_Name, RG_New, RG_newName, RG_Num, RG_Path, RG_Rec, RG_ret, RG_Save, RG_tableValues, RG_tableValuesTmp, RG_tst, RG_typeArray, RG_z, UploadStatus, NumFile
	Dim RG_Connection, RG_editColumn, RG_recordId, Form, editAction, editRedirectUrl, RG_Files, RG_formName, UploadType, ParamVal, ParamList, MaxFieldNumber, TmpVal, x, y, Key, ProgressBar, newFileName
	Dim tmpField_Name(), tmpValue_Name(), tmpField_Size(), tmpValue_Size(), tmpField_Thumb(), tmpValue_Thumb(), QtyRecord, TotalFileSize, valueToRedirectSend
	
	Set Form = New ASPForm
	Dim UploadID
	UploadID = Form.NewUploadID
	ProgressBar = ""
	TotalFileSize = ""
  	editRedirectUrl = "/cmsAdmin/editNclose.asp"
	RG_Connection = MM_hmgSQLconn_STRING
	RG_editTable = "dbo.hmgBlogArticles"	
	RG_Files = "/blog/uploads;1;;gif,jpg,jpeg,png;;1;articleThumb;1;;;;0;;;;;1;;1;articleThumb@_@_@1@_@_@0@_@_@0;150;;90;-1;;;80;0;_small;-1;0;0;;;80;0;_small;0@_@_@/@_@_@POST"
	RG_formName = "actionForm"
	UploadType="Insert"
	UploadStatus = ""
	valueToRedirectSend = ""
	NumFile = 0

	if len(Request.QueryString("UploadID"))>0 then
		Form.UploadID = Request.QueryString("UploadID")
	end if
	
	if (Request.QueryString <> "") Then
	 	editAction = CStr(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")) & "?" & Request.QueryString & "&UploadID=" & UploadID
	else
	 	editAction = CStr(Request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")) & "?UploadID=" & UploadID	
	End If
	
Const fsCompletted  = 0

If Form.State = fsCompletted Then 
  if Form.State = 0 then

		Set ParamVal = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
		tmp = split(RG_Files,"@_@_@")
		ParamList = split(tmp(0),"|")
		MaxFieldNumber = ubound(ParamList)
		for x=0 to Ubound(ParamList)
			TmpVal = Split(ParamList(x),";")
			for y=0 to ubound(TmpVal)
				Key = right("00" & cstr(x),3) & cstr(y)
				ParamVal.add Key, TmpVal(y)
			next
		next
		Form.Files.Save

		RG_fieldsStr  = "articleDate|value|articleTitle|value|articleSummary|value|categoryID|value|articleBody|value"
  		RG_columnsStr = "articleDate|',none,NULL|articleTitle|',none,''|articleSummary|',none,''|categoryID|none,none,NULL|articleBody|',none,''"
		Form.Files.DataBaseInsert

		response.write(getRedirect())
		response.end
  End If
ElseIf Form.State > 10 then
  response.write "<br><Font Color=red>Some form error.<br>Error code: " & Form.State & "<br>Error List:<br>0  Form was successfully processed. <br>1  Request method is NOT post <br>2  Zero length request (there are no data in a source form) <br>3  Form is in a middle of process. <br>5  Initial form state <br>11  Boundary of multipart/form-data is not specified. <br>12  Unknown source form (Content-type must be multipart/form-data) <br>15  Client was disconnected before upload was completted.<br>16  Unexpected error from Request.BinaryRead method (ASP error).<br></Font><br>"
End If


function GetFolderName(str):  GetFolderName = Ris : end function

function myGetFileName(str):  myGetFileName = Ris : end function

%>
<
%Dim catList
Dim catList_cmd
Dim catList_numRows

Set catList_cmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command")
catList_cmd.ActiveConnection = MM_hmgSQLconn_STRING
catList_cmd.CommandText = "SELECT * FROM dbo.hmgBlogCategories ORDER BY categoryName ASC" 
catList_cmd.Prepared = true

Set catList = catList_cmd.Execute
catList_numRows = 0
%>

Oh.. I just noticed you are using a discontinued extension: DMXzone Calendar 1, which is no longer supported and not compatible with the Editor. Please update to DMXzone Calendar 2: www.dmxzone.com/go/19516/dmxzone-calendar-2/

I already paid for this extension once. Is version two not an upgrade from the original? I have to re-purchase the same extension again??

We've been working on DMXzone Calendar 2 for a couple of months it is a brand new, build from the ground up version of our classic DMXzone Calendar. It comes with new extended functionality and there is a special upgrade price for all of the DMXzone Calendar owners.

I will upgrade and put the new one in place right now.

Thank you for your support Teodor! That was the solution. My icon bar now works perfectly.