Disable rich text editor by default

Question

I am using WYSIWYG module with TinyMce as Rich Text Editor. I need to make the rich text editor disabled only for a particular text area in a create content page, i.e., when I click Enable rich-text link, it must get activated. How can this be done?I am using drupal 6

Answer 1

There's a solution here http://www.only10types.com/2011/12/drupal-6-enabledisable-wysiwyg-editor.html

Basically, you need to alter this specific edit form. This is what I did for Drupal 7 (the blog post is for Drupal 6):

function MYMODULE_form_alter(&$form, &$form_state, $form_id) {

  // Workaround to disable Wysiwyg just in this field.
  if ($form_id === 'FORM_ID_OF_EDIT_FORM') {
    $form['field_CUSTOM'][LANGUAGE_NONE][0]['#wysiwyg'] = FALSE;
  }
}

You may want to use $language->language instead of LANGUAGE_NONE.

Answer 2

I always use Wysiwyg module with the following steps:

1. Install wysiwyg module
2. Download TinyMce library to libraries (sites/add/libraries) folder
3. Create a new input format, called Wysiwyg (admin/config/content/formats)
4. Set the correct roles to this input format
5. Set this as a full html format (don't convert line breaks to brs etc)
6. Connect wysiwyg profile to this (admin/config/content/wysiwyg)

This solution is for Drupal 7 but you can do it on D6 too with the same steps, just change the administration urls.