Creating an Enhanced Rich Text Field in your SharePoint Content Types

When creating custom content types inside your features or site definitions you need to specify field definitions to define your custom fields. I was trying to create a Enhanced Rich Text field within my Content Type but was struggling to find the right XML.

Eventually I found out you need to include the RichText=”TRUE” and RichTextMode=”FullHtml” attributes within your field definition as shown below:

<Field

    ID=”{8A2EA652-DDCB-4bf7-84EE-129E7B7A5403}”
    Name=”ArticleBody”
    Group=”Reuters columns”
    DisplayName=”Article Body”
    Type=”Note”
    Sealed=”FALSE”
    ReadOnly=”FALSE”
    Hidden=”FALSE”
    RichText=”TRUE”
    RichTextMode=”FullHtml”
    DisplaceOnUpgrade=”TRUE” />

I can’t understand why this information isn’t more readily available and well documented on MSDN.