Is there a CEWP in SharePoint 2010 or are you just calling it that? From what I've seen, it looks like the whole page is a Rich Text Editor. It looks closer to a publishing field control that you can place web parts in.

Hey tom - yes there is a proper CEWP in SP2010.

Hi Sahil,

While this is indeed great because indeed, business users love that webpart and now we won't encounter URL problems anymore (or less), the webpart now behaves indeed like the richtext publishing field control.

And now, it doesn't look possible anymore to put javascript code directly in the CEWP (it's just cleaned out automatically upon saving). Did you observe the same behavior?

Cheers

Stephane -

Umm no, I was able to put in javascript in the CEWP. You have to do in Edit HTML source though. This is how I test out my JavaScripts that talk to the Client Object Model, ADO.NET Rest API, or Custom WCF services.

S

Sahil,

My mistake...I could have sweared I tried it the way you said but I got a "warning, the HTML souce you entered might have been modified"...and then it didn't work but I probably made a mistake since it works now...I didn't insist since the publishing rich editor doesn't allow javascript so I thought the new CEWP behaved the same way.

I intended to test the client object model :)

Thanks

I am getting the same strange error when trying to add html to the CEWP, and haven't gotten it to work yet. Any suggestions?

I have to agree with some of the comments here and not Sahil's blog post.

1. There is nothing called the "Content Editor Web Part". There is a web part you can insert onto a page called "Content Editor" (under the Media and Content category) but it is not the CEWP we all use as a swiss army knife as there's no source mode, only rich text.


2. You have click on the page then under the Format Text ribbon click on HTML at the far right to edit the source of the entire page in an overlay window.


3. When you save it, SharePoint *does* modify the changes which sometimes messes with what you were trying to do. For example I added this a page:

<style type="text/css">


#s4-leftpanel { display: none }


</style>

To try to hide the left panel (something you might typically do on a page to make it more user friendly). When the page was saved it showed me a message "Warning: The HTML source might have been modifed". When I looked at the source of the page this is what I saw:

<style>


.ExternalClass11ABE6BE63624514A8BA3F4398DE9512 #s4-leftpanel


{display:none;}


</style>

What's wrong with this picture? Plenty. The <style> tag no longer conforms to WC3 standard markup so fails a validation and the new interjected .ExternalClassXXXX screws up the intention, to hide the element id s4-leftpanel because it now has a CSS class qualifier so it doesn't match anymore and thus the real div tag isn't found.


4. Turn the javascript debugger on in IE7 and you'll see a lot of errors popping up. Hopefully these will be resolved (after all it is a beta) but I would have expected something as basic as javascript errors when you put a page into editing mode to be fixed by now.

Caveat: I have the publishing infrastructure turned on and running on SharePoint Server, not Foundation which may differ from what Sahil is running on.

I do believe there's been a lot of changes in 2010 that we'll continue to explore and while I think everything has been upgraded for the better, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore Dorothy.