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If you want to get HTML editor within MS Access form, there are couple of solutions available. The free solution I know is to get Not So Elegant HTML Editor. The problem with this editor is that

• After looking at this editor, you will never say “so cool”
• It is good for basic editing but many important functionality like “Table” editing is missing.

When I had to create HTML Editor within MS Access form, I asked the question to myself “Why to reinvent the wheel?” and the solution I came up with has the main benefits

• It is completely FREE
• When users will look at it, they will definitely say “so cooooool”.
• Rich feature set
• XHTML compliant code will be generated and hence output can be used anywhere.
• Plugin based architecture can help add extra cool features

Here is a sample of how this editor would look like Read more…

In your MS Access application, if you are using Microsoft Web browser, we may have to interact with the Javascript variable inside the loaded page. There is no obvious method exists in the Web browser control but using the following trick you can get/set the Javascript variable in the webpage.

Quick Tip:

Add Javascript function to get/set the value of Javascript variable/ HTML element from/to the hidden field. Execute the function using VBA code with the help of DOM functions available in VBA. Please read further for the details or download the code. Read more…