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Does the same go for tree setName functions? I have tried to set the name of a checkbox in a tree, but the value returned is undefined...

is there some documentation to use rich text area in google app scripts?

I need to enable my customers to be able to edit text formats. how can I do this?

Is there anyone working on this? I don't see a internal tracking number and this status is also a little weird, I mean, different from the other issues.
And this seems like a pretty basic fix, which makes it impossible to use this widget.

June 2011,  tomorow is june 2012...this is becoming a long delay doesn't it ? any information about an update ?

Updating the status field of this issue, since it was using a legacy status value. This issue is somewhat complicated, since RichTextArea is not a standard/normal form widget. We'll update here as we have more information.

Resolving this for UiService is not feasible, however there are many options for rich text editors/widgets that work with jQuery and would therefore be supported in Html Service.

Here are some options: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/207774/what-is-the-best-rich-textarea-editor-for-jquery

I have not found a single richtext editor that works with google-caja (and therefore with apps script html service). Has anyone?

I've been struggling with this as well... I think I've tried about a dozen of the most-popular ones so far (jQuery and non-jQuery)... I even went so far as to start writing my own, but Caja makes it very difficult to detect the cursor position in the TextArea or even selected text. I shouldn't have even tried, since rangyInputs (http://code.google.com/p/rangyinputs/) gave me a preview of what I'd be facing: "TextInputs module for Rangy not supported in your browser. Reason: No means of finding text input caret position."

Just a follow-on comment to my prior one... I found that the Google Caja team is working on text-range support (http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/issues/detail?id=1511), and that using RangyInputs can cause a server-side error in Caja (http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/issues/detail?id=1521).

caja does not allow contenteditable, or this should work:
<div id="content" contenteditable="true" >1234</div>

Something with pasting malicious rich text.

Possible workaround googleside: Have a hidden field mirroring the content of the richtextarea, and update it before sending.

I'm going to look into this issue again and see what if anything can be done. If this can't be fixed then we should probably remove the widget completely.

Any update about it?

Thanks

We recently deprecated the RichTextArea widget:

http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2013/03/retiring-a-few-apps-script-components.html

Therefore we decided not to take action on this bug.