NetRix Designer component comes with a full User Interface, PropertyGrid support and additonal controls (ColorPicker, FontPicker, StyleEditor) in ten anguages. The component supports Drag and Drop and Glyphs and provides several plug-ins like Spellchecker, MS Word table editing, magnetic helplines, vector graphic editing and much more.
The control has a lot of new features not part of MSHTML:
- Complete rewritten .NET like API
- Simplified and improved interfaces
- Configurable context menu
- Advanced table editor , select columns, rows, cells, etc like MS Word does
- All element DHTML events are available as .NET events
- All elements are represented as native .NET objects for easy manipulation
- Full programmatic access to document and all elements, as well as their properties.
- Only 2000 KB in size (PropertyGrid support and UI needs additonal 700 KB with ten language packs)
- Does NOT need interop assembly interop.mshtml.dll as part of your program
- Full version supports Studio 2005 up to 2013 (Framework 2.0 to 4.5.1).
- Browse mode to use as browser without editing function (limited)
- Replaces file monikers internally to display embedded images as well
- Access of document through XmlDocument based interface
- Beautifies the code internally, no more terrible MSHTML code (Export as XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.0)
- Full HTML 5.0 support, including editor for OPTGROUP
- Completely written in C#
- Toolbox (VS.NET Designer) support
- Sophisticated Insert Entity Control, just for free as part of the demo application (with colored browser version support advice bar)
Main Features
- HTML WYSIWYG editor control with these important features:
- Complete table support (resizing, column width, join/split cells, multiple cell selection, ...)
- Drag and Drop support
- Drag & Drop from outside the control
- Grid and Snap to grid
- Ruler for easy assign of elements
- Helplines , movable by mouse to set virtual boundaries
- Glyphs , shows tag pictures inside the editor view.
- Displays Grid in background
- Displays frames , let the user edit within framed view relative paths to images, no terrible file:/// monikers used
- Complete UI with propertygrid support out-of-the-box Edit any element directly
- HTML colors enabled color editor
- Font editor with font preview
- Style editor
- Unit editor
- Document property editor
- Head element editing: META, LINK,
- Localizable, 10 languages supported out-of-the-box (Full version only)
Multiselection
- Absolute positioning, global and per element, like VS.NETs GridLayout
- Auto detect URL and E-Mail addresses, inserts anchors automatically
- Show zero borders around invisible tables and images
- TAB key support: Increase /Decrease indent level in lists (OL/UL+LI) with TAB/Shft-TAB and jump from cell to cell inside tables (if enabled programmatically)
- Wrap support: Select text and wrap any element around it Switch stylesheet on and off without changing HTML code
- Switch from designmode to preview without reloading
- Edit META, LINK, Title, and Script blocks with integrated editors
- Supports OPTGROUP with special editor
- Get element related lists: all parents, all children, current
- Handle events flexible: Mouse over element, Key, Mouse click, Selection
- Unlimited UNDO/REDO, packed for complex operations
- Full HTML 5.0 support - even for the "exotics"
- Full Printer Template Support - Revolutionary printing capabilites
- Table editing features supported:
- Merge cells
- Split single cell
- Resize columns/rows with mouse
- Select multiple cells (even irregular shape) and assign properties
- Works well with nested tables (unlimited nesting levels)
- Advanced features customizable (on/off, highlight colors)
- Super professional options:
- Glyphs in various states
- Drag and Drop
- Spell checker interface
- Grid and "Snap to grid"
- Helpline
- Frames editor and in-frame editing support