django - How to setup TINYMCE to point to static_files? -

i using django 1.5.1, , know since django 1.3 world of media , statis files have been separated reasons.

to surprise django-tinymce's documentation referring how tinymce_js_url pointing default media url.

tinymce_js_url (default: settings.media_url + 'js/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js') 

that doesn't make sense. in django 1.3+ have static_url self hosted js , css files. trying change confusing , doesn't work.

this how setup static files settings:

static_root = '/home/kave/project-env/site/static/' static_url = '/static/' staticfiles_dirs = ('/home/kave/project-env/site/static_files/',) 

in static_files directory have extracted tinymce zipfile: e.g. path this:

/home/kave/project-env/site/static_files/tinymce/js/tinymce/tinymce.min.js 

then have set settings this:

tinymce_js_url = static_url + 'tinymce/js/tinymce/tinymce.min.js' tinymce_js_root = static_root + 'tinymce/js/tinymce' 

however when app runs, see plain textfield instead of tinymce.

what have overlooked please?

i have figured out, hope helps else.

you need point built-in tiny_mce automatically installed through pip. no need download anything.

<script type="text/javascript" src="{{ static_url }}tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js"></script> 

for admin screen, make sure have this:

class tinymceadmin(admin.modeladmin):     class media:         js = ('/static/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js', )  admin.site.register(mymodel, tinymceadmin) 

and don't forget config in settings.py

tinymce_default_config = {     # general options     'mode' : "textareas",     'theme' : "advanced",     'plugins' : "pagebreak,style,layer,table,save,advhr,advimage,advlink,emotions,iespell,inlinepopups,insertdatetime,preview,media,searchreplace,print,contextmenu,paste,directionality,fullscreen,noneditable,visualchars,nonbreaking,xhtmlxtras,template,wordcount,advlist,autosave",      # theme options     'theme_advanced_buttons1' : "bold,italic,underline,strikethrough,|,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,justifyfull,fontselect,fontsizeselect,", #fullscreen,code",     'theme_advanced_buttons2' : "bullist,numlist,|,outdent,indent,blockquote,|,undo,redo,|,link,unlink,|,forecolor,backcolor",     #'theme_advanced_buttons3' : "tablecontrols,|,hr,sub,sup,|,charmap",      'theme_advanced_toolbar_location' : "top",     'theme_advanced_toolbar_align' : "left",     'theme_advanced_statusbar_location' : "bottom",     'theme_advanced_resizing' : 'true',      #example content css (should site css)     #content_css : "/css/style.css",      'template_external_list_url' : "lists/template_list.js",     'external_link_list_url' : "lists/link_list.js",     'external_image_list_url' : "lists/image_list.js",     'media_external_list_url' : "lists/media_list.js",      # style formats     'style_formats' : [         {'title' : 'bold text', 'inline' : 'strong'},         {'title' : 'red text', 'inline' : 'span', 'styles' : {'color' : '#ff0000'}},         {'title' : 'help', 'inline' : 'strong', 'classes' : 'help'},         {'title' : 'table styles'},         {'title' : 'table row 1', 'selector' : 'tr', 'classes' : 'tablerow'}     ],      'width': '700',     'height': '400' } 

other make sure use htmlfield inside model model textfield. in forms.py, if not using modelform, need define new widget well.