The HTMLArea provides a way to show and edit HTML content. The capabilities and how they are presented to the user differ between the Smart and Web Client.

Smart Client

The HTMLArea in the Smart Client unfortunately does not support modern day HTML-related standards like HMTL5 and CSS3. It supports   HTML3, a subset of HTML4 and CSS2. As such, it can be used to display and edit basic formatted text.

When editing HTML through the HTMLArea in the Smart Client the MenuBar with edit options is shown in the window's menubar area, so not in or directly above the HTMLArea itself.

Possible replacements for the HMTLArea in the Smart Client are:

• svyJFXWebView component: Servoy module that wraps JavaFX's WebView and makes it easily usable form within Servoy.
  Does not have a HTML Editor embedded by default as it is just a browser component, which can be used to show a HTML Editor like TinyMCE or CK Editor.
  The svyJFXWebView component does require Java 7 or higher 
• Browser Suite
  The Browser Suite can render modern HTML and also includes a HTML Editor component. The downside of the Browser Suite is a hefty additional download and it (currently) doesn't work under Java 7 on OSX
• Sferyx Html Editor
  Commercial HTML Editor component

Web Client

In the Web Client the content of a HTMLArea is rendered inline in the HTML markup of the Servoy form, thus it comes down to the capabi