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How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

Last post 12-18-2008, 2:15 AM by Anonymous. 4 replies.


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12-17-2008, 4:06 AM 47011

Anonymous

How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

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Hi Adam,

I have a problem. I have created a usercontrol (myusercontrol) and in that I have placed cuteEditor control. On my application I 'm using this user control which exposes some of required properties and methods of cuteeditor.

On some pages I have a requirement to get the HTML content of myusercontrol.
WhatI'm trying is to get the instance of myusercontrol and then try to call the getHtml method. Is that correct?

How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

Somehow I tried toget the instance in javascript by using following

var contentData = document.getElementById('ctl00$cplxyz$myusercontrol$Editor2').value;

but this will give me junk data also. I tried .innerHTML and .innerText also but same result.
means If I entered "abc" in editor, then the above returns something like '#dbc" etc or something like that.

Please suggest some solution for this.

Thanks

Thanks

12-17-2008, 12:13 PM 47035 in reply to 47011

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

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Please use .getHTML method to get the content from the editor.

This method is used for retrieving the content of CuteEditor as HTML.

Example:

// get the cute editor instance
var editor1 = document.getElementById('<% = Editor1.ClientID%>');

// retrieving the content of Cute Editor as HTML
var content = editor1.getHTML();
alert(content );

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12-17-2008, 12:50 PM 47048 in reply to 47035

Anonymous

Re: How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

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Hi Adam,

I tried this but as I mentioned earlier that I have created a usercontrol that is myUserControl and I placed cuteEditor control in it. Now when I try to to get the instance of editor I have to use name of control and in my case the name is something like

ctl00$myUserControl$xyz$Editor2

First case:

if I pass this to in following code
var editor1 = document.getElementById('<% = ctl00$myUserControl$xyz$Editor2.ClientID%>');

Then it is giving the editor1 =Null or undefined.

Second case:
Next if I try to get the instance by calling following code

var editor1 = document.getElementById('ctl00$myUserControl$xyz$Editor2');

Then I get the object instance. but with this I could not Get the method editor1.getHTML. Only I can get is methods like

editor1.innerHTML or editor1.value. But this gives me junk characters along with the actual content.

So either I should get some way to execute the case 1 code correctly so that I can get the GetHTML method or some way for case 2 to get the proper content.

Thanks

12-17-2008, 1:20 PM 47050 in reply to 47048

Adam
Joined on 09-23-2003
Aurora, ON
Posts 18,678

Re: How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

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You can use the browser's "View Source..." to get the editor ID:

<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" _IsCuteEditor="True" id="CE_Editor1_ID"

12-18-2008, 2:15 AM 47068 in reply to 47050

Anonymous

Re: How to get instance of editor wrapped in UserControl?

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Hi Adam,

Thanks ..it worked... But in firefox mozilla it is not working for a specific case.

I have a page where I'm using 2 editor's. Basedon some logic it is required to show or hide the editor.so if one editor is hidden (for this I'm using "display:none"),then the above is not working inFirefox when I use

var contentData = document.getElementById('CE_ctl00_abc_myUserControl_Editor2_ID').GetHTML(); (Visible on page)

var contentData= document.getElementById('CE_ctl00_xyz_myUserControl_Editor2_ID').GetHTML(); (display:none:- not visible on page))

Giving Error: document.getElementById("CE_ctl00_xyz_myUserControl_Editor2_ID").GetHTML is not a function

Pls suggest!

Thanks