Problem with TextArea and CkEditor

Hello,

I have a problem when i paste code with a textarea tag inside a ckeditor i cannot do anything.
It seems that the editor is confused and is treating the textarea tag as a ckeditor instance.

Is there any way to solve that?

Thank yo.

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 05:46

bbpsm

Joined: 20/05/2009

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with TextArea and CkEditor

Just want to confirm this issue. I'm having the same issue.

I've copied and pasted forms with TEXTAREAS into FCKEditor and they are displayed and saved properly.

In CKEDITOR, I try the same thing, and everything below the first TEXTAREA is lost.

Since I use a DB to save the HTML, I tested this by pasting correct HTML directly into the database. CKEditor doesn't display anything below the TEXTAREA. However, when I display the DB info in another page, it works. It seems CKEDITOR isn't displaying it right.

Sorry, tyler7osfp, that I don't have an answer. Perhaps a few more posts reporting the problem will get some attention from somebody with an answer.

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:24

datalink

Joined: 18/10/2007

Posts: 149

Re: Problem with TextArea and CkEditor

I think you are using this

<textarea name="mytextfield" rows="5"></textarea>

but you have to use htmlspecialchars for source

&lt;textarea name=&quot;mytextfield&quot; rows=&quot;5&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 19:48

bbpsm

Joined: 20/05/2009

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with TextArea and CkEditor

Thanks.

Where? Is this within the CKEditor? Or is this for the CKEditor textarea...the one that's replaced by CKEditor?

BTW: Even a textarea that' inserted by CKEditor fails like this. If this is what i should copy and paste when editing a page, I'd expect CKEditor to create proper textarea's. Just sayin'.

Wed, 06/22/2011 - 20:03

bbpsm

Joined: 20/05/2009

Posts: 10

Re: Problem with TextArea and CkEditor

SOLUTION (I Think)

I used PHP's htmlspecialchars on the HTML that's in the editor. And it seems to work.

SAMPLE CODE

<textarea class="editor" cols="80" id="Editor" name="Editor" rows="10">
<?php echo htmlspecialchars( $HTMLToEditGoesHere ); ?>
</textarea>

Then this "editor" textarea is replaced by CKEditor.