Sometimes we need to remove some buttons from the RichTextEditor control of SharePoint for some page or a particular website. Since, RichTextEditor control uses global Form.js, so we can’t directly modify that js as it’ll impact entire farm.
To deal with this kind of scenario, I’ve created a copy of form.js and uploaded it into our site, and then modified it to remove some buttons. There are functions in form.js for different RichTextMode
- Compatible: RTE_GetCompatibleToolBarDefinition
- FullHtml: RTE_FullHtmlToolBarDefinitionFactory
Open the copy of form.js from our site and then search form the above functions and comment out “toolBar.push” for the button in appropriate function and check-in the js file.
Now open in SPD and paste the below script at the bottom of the page.
<script type="text/javascript">
function removejscssfile(filename, filetype) {
var targetelement = (filetype == "js") ? "script" : (filetype == "css") ? "link" : "none" //determine element type to create nodelist from
var targetattr = (filetype == "js") ? "src" : (filetype == "css") ? "href" : "none" //determine corresponding attribute to test for
var allsuspects = document.getElementsByTagName(targetelement)
for (var i = allsuspects.length; i >= 0; i--) { //search backwards within nodelist for matching elements to remove
if (allsuspects[i] && allsuspects[i].getAttribute(targetattr) != null && allsuspects[i].getAttribute(targetattr).indexOf(filename) != -1)
allsuspects[i].parentNode.removeChild(allsuspects[i]) //remove element by calling parentNode.removeChild()
}
}
removejscssfile("form.js", "js")
</script>
<script src="/Style Library /FORM.debug_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The idea is to remove the default form.js from the page and then add our own modified js. So, when control loads it’ll call function from our modified js file. As a result all the buttons that we have commented out in our own js will not load into the control. Attached is the sample js file.
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Below is the screenshot of RichTextEditor.