DotNetNuke Tip #17, Disable Inline Editing in Text/HTML

DotNetNuke Tip #17, Disable Inline Editing in Text/HTML

With the latest releases of DNN, 3.3.* and 4.3.*, you may notice that when logged in to a page you have edit rights to that you can "edit" content in the text/html modules simply by clicking on them in the browser window and typing. Convenient, yes? Sometimes! Othertimes it can really be a pain in the rear, I'm a click happy person, I click places so I can get my scroll started, so that last thing I want is to begin editing content on my pages.

I figured I'd post a solution to disable this option in DNN. Currently this requires a recompile, though I know the core team is looking at how to make this an option for the Text/HTML module.

So here's what you need to do.

Download the Source Version of the Text/HTML project from DotNetNuke.com

Open the Project in VS 2003, I opened it in an existing DNN solution I had setup already.

Open the HtmlModule.ascx.vb file

Around line 196 you'll find the following code

lblContent.EditEnabled = Me.IsEditable

Comment that line out and add the following line

'lblContent.EditEnabled = Me.IsEditable
lblContent.EditEnabled = False

Recompile the module in release mode and use the newly created DLL in your environments. Always Test new code/dlls on a test instance before moving them into production. The above code worked fine for me, but please test for yourself first.

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