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On the front page of a site I'm working on there's a small slideshow. It's not for pictures in particular, any content can go in, and I'm currently setting up the editing interface for the client. I'd like to be able to have one/two/more columns in the editable area, and ideally that would be via CSS - does anyone know of a WYSIWYG editor that supports this? I'm using Drupal (would prefer not to involve Panels as it would require a bit of work to make it a streamlined workflow for content entry) in case that matters to anyone.

To start the ball rolling, one way would be to use templates. I know CKEditor supports templates, and it looks like TinyMCE might have something similar. I don't know how well these work with tableless columns (the CKEditor homepage demo uses tables to achieve its two column effect).

Holding out for a cool solution!

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    +1, Awesome question I've often wondered. Personally, I abandoned WYSIWYG-ness in the editor because of this.
    – Chris Adragna
    Commented Dec 8, 2010 at 18:43
  • Looking forward to an answer to this, too. I've tried DIV formatting as a means of replacing tables, and it feels like I keep coming back to the tables every time because I can predict how they'll behave better.
    – Kaji
    Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 6:31
  • Do you mean the editable content spans multiple columns? Or do you just want a multi-columns layout in which one columns is editable?
    – Stephan Muller
    Commented Dec 9, 2010 at 19:56
  • @Litso I want the option to have the editable content be n columns. This should be something that the user chooses, and should be mirrored in the WYSIWYG editor. I've updated the question slightly to clarify. Thanks.
    – Andy
    Commented Dec 10, 2010 at 12:47
  • Ooh, tough one. I'll think about an answer, can't promise anything
    – Stephan Muller
    Commented Dec 10, 2010 at 13:22

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This page shows an example of the Aloha editor working with CSS3 columns (and this demo is just plain nuts!). Very nice! I didn't see any way to create the columns through the editor, though that shouldn't be too difficult to add. There's already a thread for Drupal integration as well. The editor also has a repository API which sounds very cool. It's at version 0.9.3, and I noticed the image plugin was still a work in progress, so I'm not sure it's ready for live use yet (I'm also interested in its compatibility). But very very interesting!

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  • Brilliant. That editor is so much more than "an editor that can do columns"... I'm really looking forward to implementing this in a Drupal site and seeing a huge smile on my customer's face. Thanks for the tip, Andy!
    – marcvangend
    Commented Jan 10, 2011 at 12:56
  • You're welcome. Yeah it's certainly more than just a columnful editor. It'd be nice to use Aloha for webmaster content editing (where you can require folk to have up-to-date browsers) on a project soonish.
    – Andy
    Commented Jan 10, 2011 at 21:13
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Have you seen the Columns Filter module? On the input side, it may not be as wysiwyg as a solution with CKeditor templates, but I think it should work fine on the output side.

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  • Lovely. Not exactly what I was looking for, but still looks v cool, thanks.
    – Andy
    Commented Dec 21, 2010 at 10:45

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