CKEditor doesn't update the document. You have to do that.
CKEditor is a replacement for a <textarea>. It is not a content management system.
It's a little like submitting a form and then wondering why the page didn't update. You have to do something with the form fields. Most specifically, you have to do something with the <textarea> that CKEditor helped you edit.
Dr. DOT wrote:What's the purpose of the Save Button then?
That's like asking what's the purpose of a submit button in a form. The answer to both questions is the same. To inform your code that it needs to so something with some user submitted information.
Dr. DOT wrote:And just to be clear CKEditor does not include the backend portion of the app to save the edits. I need to handle that myself on server-side?
Re: How to make Save Button work
CKEditor is a replacement for a <textarea>. It is not a content management system.
It's a little like submitting a form and then wondering why the page didn't update. You have to do something with the form fields. Most specifically, you have to do something with the <textarea> that CKEditor helped you edit.
Re: How to make Save Button work
Re: How to make Save Button work
That's like asking what's the purpose of a submit button in a form. The answer to both questions is the same. To inform your code that it needs to so something with some user submitted information.
Re: How to make Save Button work
I know that CKFinder handles the backend of its file management system so I guess I just expected CKEditor to be doing the same thing.
Not a problem, just wanting to understand how CKEditor works (as it is not addressed in the user doc).
One more question, please...how do I deactivate/hide any of the buttons from the UI?
Re: How to make Save Button work
Check docs:
http://docs.cksource.com/CKEditor_3.x/D ... de/Toolbar
http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/s ... l#.toolbar
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Re: How to make Save Button work
And just to be clear CKEditor does not include the backend portion of the app to save the edits. I need to handle that myself on server-side?
I know that CKFinder handles the backend of its file management system so I guess I just expected CKEditor to be doing the same thing.
Not a problem, just wanting to understand how CKEditor works (as it is not addressed in the user doc).
Re: How to make Save Button work
Correct.
Re: How to make Save Button work
I keep refreshing/reloading the page to get the new config.js to download, but the tool keeps rendering the out of the box toolbar.
How do get mine to work?
I even added the following to my html form <script>
Nevermind...put this in the wrong config.j file. It works now. Thanks