Dialog onShow Get Element Value

Hi,
I would like to get the value of a dialog element on show make some changes to it then set the element to the new value the following returns an empty string

dialog.on('show', function () {
                var urlField = this.getContentElement('info', 'url');
                var href = urlField.getValue();
                alert(href);
            });

Any ideas would be great.
Thanks

Fri, 03/11/2011 - 11:30

keyoke

Joined: 10/02/2011

Posts: 8

Re: Dialog onShow Get Element Value

I found something of interest in link plugin which kinda works I am able to get the href for the item which will be loaded in the link dialog but when I modify it it is not persisted. so makes me think this is not the coreect way to do it

 dialog.on('show', function () {
                var editor = this.getParentEditor(),            
            element = CKEDITOR.plugins.link.getSelectedLink(editor);

                if (element != null) {
                    if (!element.isReadOnly()) {
                        if (element.is('a')) {
                            var href = element.getAttribute('href');              
                                            element.setAttribute('href', newURL);
                                            element.setAttribute('cke-saved-href',newURL);                                 }
                        }
                    }
                }           
            });