Incorporating "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) HTML editing into your VCL applications just got easier. The ProfDHTMLEdit component is just about the easiest way to give your applications the familiar capabilities of WYSIWYG editing, while taking advantage of the DHTML-rendering capabilities available in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. With this component in your application, the user can do everything from basic text-and-table formatting to resizing elements on the fly — capabilities that users have come to expect from HTML-based applications. In fact, this component is one easy way to add HTML editing capabilities to any Delphi or C++Builder application. The ProfDHTMLEdit component is especially useful for incorporating editing into HTML-authoring applications, HTML Help, and HTML e-mail applications. Any application that uses HTML documents, or that targets HTML as its output, can benefit from the ProfDHTMLEdit component. Incorporating editing capabilities is easy for authors and developers alike. The component provides basic editing capabilities that use Internet Explorer to render HTML. So the editing environment will always be in sync with the browsing environment.

The ProfDHTMLEdit component allows application developers to add WYSIWYG DHTML editing capabilities to their applications. The component uses Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) technology to provide access to editing services such as basic HTML formatting, tables, undo and redo, etc.

The ProfDHTMLEdit component uses Microsoft Internet Explorer to parse and render HTML, so the editing environment provides a faithful representation of what the document will look like in the browser. Developers can use Delphi or C++Builder to access editing services and provide a user interface for editing features. They can also access the Document Object Model (DOM) to add more sophisticated, custom editing features to their applications.

The ProfDHTMLEdit component includes editing features that allow even novice HTML users to create sophisticated web pages. Editing features include:

• Text formatting Users can set character formatting, including font style, face, size, and color. Paragraphs can be justified and indented.
• Editing The component supports multi-level undo and redo commands. Users can use standard Cut, Copy, and Paste commands. Elements can be moved or resized by dragging. The component supports a number of keyboard accelerators.
• Drag-and-drop capability Users can drag any object, text, or element anywhere on the page.
• Search The component can display a Find dialog box to allow users to search for text.
• Hyperlinking Users can define links and bookmarks in the text.
• Images Users can insert images into the document.
• Table support Users can insert tables and can add and delete columns, rows, and cells.
• File management Users can open existing HTML files from disk or from the Web, save them to disk, and print them. The document being edited can also be loaded from and saved to memory, allowing you to create custom client-server applications.
• CSS support The component fully supports cascading style sheets (CSS).
• Unicode support The component supports Unicode documents. It will automatically detect Unicode in a document and display and save it correctly.
• Context menus The component allows you to create a context menu that users can display by right-clicking the document.
• Dialog boxes The component allows you to display standard Windows dialog boxes (like Open and Save As).
• Displaying glyphs for non-visual elements Certain types of invisible elements, such as HTML comments or scripts, can optionally be shown as glyphs to mark their location in the document.
• Spell checking The component is compatible with the Addict spell-check component. If you have Addict 3, you can run a spell-check as easily as:
    AddictSpell31.CheckWinControl(ProfDHTMLEdit21, ctAll);
• Configurable source code options The component allows you to fine-tune the output HTML source according to your specific needs; for example, to target XHTML conformance of your HTML documents.
• Access to the DHTML object model The component allows access to the document using the DHTML document object model (DOM), which exposes a hierarchy of HTML elements from the document down to individual elements and their contents.

The ProfDHTMLEdit component requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. If you have the browser installed, the component is ready to run. The component supports Delphi 3 thru 7, Delphi 2005 for Win32, Delphi 2006 for Win32, Delphi 2007, and C++Builder 3 thru 2006.