TYPO3-Addict is your TYPO3 Blog. Bringing you tips and tricks for developing websites with TYPO3. Here you'll find TypoScript snippets, TSConfig and configuration options for your own TYPO3 website.

According to Google Analytics a lot of people are currently looking for a way to use embed tags within the (tt_news) RTE. By default the TYPO3 RTE will remove these embed tags, but it’s fairly easy to change this. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to insert an iframe, within the TYPO3 RTE.

Ever wanted to replace a single word throughout a whole TYPO3 website? Of even better: You know it will have to be changed in time? Like a year or a name? The solution is quite simple yet not seen as often as you might think. Most people know they can set a TypoScript constant to [...]

I needed an image in the RTE to support the ‘click and enlarge’ option in tt_news. Now, I used Google to find a solution but no luck, although it seems I’m not the only one trying to make this work. Looks like this isn’t as easy as it would sound.. Read more for the solution!

Default settings of the HTMLArea RTE do not allow you to create new folders or upload files to the fileadmin. 2 simple TSConfig lines can enable this. For your convenience: ## Enable upload field options.uploadFieldsInTopOfEB = 1  ## Enable folder create options.createFoldersInEB = 1  Check out the screenshot:

Here is my default TSConfig configuration for the htmlAREA RTE. I use this one in combination with a typical (default) configuration in the Extension Manager with images enabled.

Normally, when you hit the full screen button in the htmlAREA RTE, the text-area doesn’t go full screen at all. Instead most of the time (depending on your browser and TYPO3 version) you’ll get this half full screen text area which is really not helpful at all. To fix this, past to following line into [...]