CKEditor global change event

Hi all,

is there any event which intercept changes in the editor?

I need to in know when the text is changend in ckeditor when any operations or buttons are used (keydown, paste, undo button or whatever).

Any chance to implement it if there's no already there? :)

What I'm trying to do is to keep my <textarea> element always updated with the content from the ckeditor and I want ckeditor to update the textarea.

I cannot rely on other events or elements.

Thank you,

Andrea

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 14:02

d_l

Joined: 25/01/2013

Posts: 24

some research on this topic ..

I can point you to some links I bookmarked recently when researching this topic .. but I'm still trying to get onChange to work in my own setup ..

http://alfonsoml.blogspot.ca/2011/03/onchange-event-for-ckeditor.html

http://alfonsoml.blogspot.fr/2012/12/no-more-releases-for-onchange-plugin.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11994021/simple-way-to-add-onchange-event-to-ckeditor

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5143516/detecting-onchange-events-from-a-ckeditor-using-jquery

...

Another approach I'm looking at is to use knockout.js with ckeditor

http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/click-binding.html

...

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 15:10

nkjoep

Joined: 03/02/2009

Posts: 3

Thank you d_l,

so no "onChange" api within ckeditor... unlucky us...

I'll try to use that plugin, however it's something the ckeditor team should implement.

Wed, 02/27/2013 - 19:39

(Reply to #3) #4

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

It's also these kind of

It's also these kind of comments the ones that discouraged me from keep on updating the plugin.

So according to the person that has signed the code is it OK to use a plugin or not?

After all, if CKSource creates something it will be an optional plugin and you can bet that when some problem is found it will take much longer for them to release an updated version than the time that used to take me. You can compare the stylesheetparser plugin, it has a bug that has been reported for maybe one or two years, there's a patch to fix it but there's no sign at all that they care about it.

Fri, 03/01/2013 - 12:42

sebstefanov

Joined: 03/02/2012

Posts: 1329

It's actually planned for

It's actually planned for CKEditor 4.2. Didn't make the cut for 4.1, so you'll have to wait a bit longer. Here's the ticket.

Customer and Community Manager, CKSource
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