Mark,

my suspect/idea is: Edit mode is an IFrame (technically spoken), so it loads just the content, but not your script. I don't really have a solution for that atm, but maybe this leads you in the direction how to solve it,,,

Let us know if you could solve this, would be interesting.

Happy DNNing!
Michael

Yes Michael, I can see that it is in an iframe. I'll search on that for a while. Thanks.

Mark,

This is an interesting question. Why do you want to do that? More curious than anything.

I'm using an Action Form. The DNN Text Editor in an Action Form is an html module in edit mode.

My user is pulling multiple pieces of content into the editor from the user's custom tables and then stays in edit mode so the user can change the document text, highlight and underline and such, and when finished they will click a button that grabs their content from the DNN Text Editor and produces a formatted PDF.

In order to pump a piece of content from a record into the DNN Text Editor in just the right location in the existing content without replacing the entire contents of the editor, I'm placing an anchor or div with an ID in the content, and then need to use jquery/JS to put the incoming content into the html of the named div.

Basically I'm creating a pdf generator that pulls from user data that can be tweaked by the user. I'm liking it so far.

Yikes! That's quite a thing.

So, I'm wondering when jQuery fires. Do you have some sort of onchange event that monitors what's in the editor box? And, is that what you need to do? When it's in the editor box, is it really HTML? Or better, is it being interpreted as HTML? I seem to be having trouble wrapping my head around that part. Or is that really the question?

Posted By Mark Buelsing on 28 Oct 2020 01:01 PM
I'm using an Action Form. The DNN Text Editor in an Action Form is an html module in edit mode.

My user is pulling multiple pieces of content into the editor from the user's custom tables and then stays in edit mode so the user can change the document text, highlight and underline and such, and when finished they will click a button that grabs their content from the DNN Text Editor and produces a formatted PDF.

In order to pump a piece of content from a record into the DNN Text Editor in just the right location in the existing content without replacing the entire contents of the editor, I'm placing an anchor or div with an ID in the content, and then need to use jquery/JS to put the incoming content into the html of the named div.

Basically I'm creating a pdf generator that pulls from user data that can be tweaked by the user. I'm liking it so far.

I think a custom CkEditor plugin (although not very simple) would be the most reliable way to do this.
 

 

 

Now, why didn't I think of that!

Thank you Joe and Timo. I did find some JQuery that will replace the html of a named div inside a iframe, if the iframe has an id or a class. I thought I had it figured out because the iframe had a class, and my script worked. But only once. I found out that upon refreshing the page, the text editor iframe no longer had a class. Sometimes there, sometimes not there. That's out.

Just a few moments ago I figured out how to paste a unique string ( a token) into the document in the editor in any particular place that I need it, and then click a button that replaces the token with a new content section from the database using a "Replace" feature in the form. So the mission is accomplished and no JS/Jquery is needed this time.

My next trick will be to figure out how I can just drag a token into the text editor and have the replacement happen without a button click. Back to Google I go.

Just a few moments ago I figured out how to paste a unique string ( a token) into the document in the editor in any particular place that I need it, and then click a button that replaces the token with a new content section from the database using a "Replace" feature in the form. So the mission is accomplished and no JS/Jquery is needed this time.

Could you please give some more detailed instruction about the way you did this?
I have the same problem and I am using dnnsharp action form and mytokens, I want to insert a Text to the 'Dnn Text Editor' with a button click.