In my application, I need to include form controls within CuteEditor. Unfortunately, they don't behave properly. For instance, if a dropdown list in in the editor and it's dropped down, it will immediately close back up. This HTML will reproduce this behavior in any of the demos:

 

<span contenteditable="false">

<select id="dropDown1" name="dropDown1">
<option value=""  selected>a</option>
<option value="">b</option>
</select>

</span>

 

It looks like dropping down the list invokes a JavaScript event that results in some kind of a refresh (there's some activity going on in the toolbar while this is happening). Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get around this?

 

Thanks,

 

Ken Miller

Solventus LLC

Ken,

 

Can you explain how to reproduce the problem in the following example?

 

http://cutesoft.net/example/general.aspx

 

It works ok for me.

 

 

Adam,

 

If you add the HTML snippet from my original post to this example (under Windows XP or Vista and IE7), you should see the issue. Just to be clear, I'm referring to behavior of the dropdown list in the Normal pane, not the Preview pane. Also, if you click it twice in rapid succession, the list will stay down. But this really isn't a workaround because it's unintuitive for the end-user.

 

It does work under Safari for Windows. In Safari, I don't see the toolbar refresh when I drop down the list, which makes me think that whatever JavaScript event is being invoked when the list is dropped down, it's not handled in Safari. It doesn't work at all under FireFox, but I know this is due to the way FireFox handles the contenteditable attribute, and I see the same thing with FireFox in other .NET rich text editors. Under IE, this works with all other rich text editors I've tried.

 

Thanks for your help!

Adam,

 

Any update on this yet? Have you been able to duplicate the problem?

Adam,

 

I'm still waiting for an answer  on this issue.