Get text

CKEditor provides any API function for getting the entire text within the editor? (no html tags)

I could not find one by reading the documentation.

Wed, 10/13/2010 - 14:14

zanpakutō

Joined: 08/02/2010

Posts: 122

Re: Get text

Yes :
http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.editor.html#getData

Like this :

var editorData = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData();

For example.
editor1 being the id of the element of which you replaced with a CKEditor instance using a call to CKEDITOR.replace(); when the CKEditor instance was instantiated.

You can also set the data in the editor too :
http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.editor.html#setData

I think there are examples of this in the _samples folder.
Did you not look at the samples?

[EDIT] - Oh, wait,

cornel_gav wrote:no html tags

You'll need to filter the html tags out yourself using some of your own javascript regexps. CKEditor deals only with X/HTML and then shows you a representation of it so that What You See Is What You Get.
CKEditor doesn't create or edit rich text. There isn't a rich text export plugin for CKEditor that I know about either.
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Thanks,
Zanpakutō