In the original FCKEditor there was a plugin called "placeholder". It, pretty much, does what I need it to do for a custom plugin I need to develop (although it had some bugs).
Has anyone made a plugin like this before for the new version, or are planning on it?
Essentially we have special formatted tags (like BBCode, but singular - no closing tags) and we need to basically hide the syntax with a human readable label and allow the user to edit the tag via drop down in a CKEditor window. Like "[tag_name]" would show "Tag Name" in the editor and "Tag Name" is in the drop down with the value "tag_name".
Any ideas?
Has anyone made a plugin like this before for the new version, or are planning on it?
Essentially we have special formatted tags (like BBCode, but singular - no closing tags) and we need to basically hide the syntax with a human readable label and allow the user to edit the tag via drop down in a CKEditor window. Like "[tag_name]" would show "Tag Name" in the editor and "Tag Name" is in the drop down with the value "tag_name".
Any ideas?
Re: Placeholder plugin for CKEditor v3?
Hi Luke,
I realise that I'm responding to a very old post, but I've been waiting for this too.
The demo for 2.6.6 includes a placeholder example which fails to work at all for webkit browsers (safari and chrome) - it looks good but after setting a placeholder then clicking on it you'll see that the context completely fails to make it up into the dialog box.
Bug for Safari is noted here and still open: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/2425
It is noteworthy that sample code shipped with version 3.4.2 doesn't offer anything een vaguely similar, but if it did, and if it worked properly for webkit browsers I'd be upgrading all my sites in a heartbeat.
Blessings,
Martin Francis
http://www.ecclesiact.com
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Re: Placeholder plugin for CKEditor v3?
This is ready for 3.5: http://dev.ckeditor.com/ticket/5654