Replace textarea with rich text editor in Django Admin?
There's an add-on Django application to provide TinyMCE support for Django admin forms without having to muck around with admin templates or Django newform internals.
Take a look on this snippet - basic idea is to include custom JS in your admin definitions which will replace standard text areas with rich-text editor.
For jQuery/FCKEditor such JS could look like that:
$(document).ready(function() { $("textarea").each(function(n, obj) { fck = new FCKeditor(obj.id) ; fck.BasePath = "/admin-media/fckeditor/" ; fck.ReplaceTextarea() ; });});
I'd say: define your own ModelAdmin class and overwrite the widget used for particular field, like:
class ArticleAdminModelForm(forms.ModelForm): description = forms.CharField(widget=widgets.AdminWYMEditor) class Meta: model = models.Article(AdminWYMEditor is a forms.Textarea subclass that adds WYMEditor with configuration specific to Django admin app).
See this blog post by Jannis Leidel to see how this widget can be implemented.