Quick Tip – Enable all tinyMCE commands in Prestashop 1.5

For some reason, Prestashop 1.5 has seen its visual editor fire power cut down drastically. But hey, no fear, in today’s quick tip we’ll see how easy it is to have all those styling buttons back and fully working

Prestashop version: Prestashop 1.5.2. Useful for all 1.5.x so far

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Text version

Please note that this fix applies up to the latest Prestashop 1.5 version, which, at the time I am writing, is 1.5.2. It’s not needed in Prestashop 1.4.
Go to your admin folder, then themes/default/template/helpers/form/ and open up form.tpl.

At about line 400, you will find some javascript code. Change the following

				theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull|cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,undo,redo",
				theme_advanced_buttons2 : "link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,code,|,forecolor,backcolor,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,charmap,media,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
				theme_advanced_buttons3 : "",
				theme_advanced_buttons4 : ""

Into this

				theme_advanced_buttons1 : "newdocument,|,bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,styleselect,formatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect",
				theme_advanced_buttons2 : "cut,copy,paste,pastetext,pasteword,|,search,replace,|,bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,anchor,image,cleanup,help,code,,|,forecolor,backcolor",
				theme_advanced_buttons3 : "tablecontrols,|,hr,removeformat,visualaid,|,sub,sup,|,charmap,media,|,ltr,rtl,|,fullscreen",
				theme_advanced_buttons4 : "styleprops,|,cite,abbr,acronym,del,ins,attribs,pagebreak",

Of course, these are te default buttons. If you want to add only some of them, you can have a look at the tinyMCE documentation. 

Additional Resources

• Prestashop Module: Rich Text Footer on my addons store
• TinyMCE Documentation