Dynamically loading styles into the editor.

I noticed in the editor when you toggle to the source side and add a 'link' tag; it will automatically read in the styles in that external file and apply them when you return to the wysiwyg side. I was wondering if there was an easy way to invoke that same process but pass it a string of css code. I ask this because I am using the editor on one textarea and then on another I am allowing users to type in css code. I would love to see this css code import into the editor on the fly, but I don't want it as part of the actual source, because they are stored separately when the form submits.

Thanks for the help.

Tue, 08/14/2007 - 02:28

n00b32

Joined: 14/08/2007

Posts: 23

Re: Dynamically loading styles into the editor.

make it include the css. sumhow. every time you change the css and at form submit... a lil bit of js code and its done.
then when you submit both do a replace $htmldata=str_replace($css,'',$htmldata);

should work eh ?

Tue, 08/14/2007 - 14:55

jordoncm

Joined: 13/08/2007

Posts: 2

Re: Dynamically loading styles into the editor.

That is an interesting idea, but I was hoping to preserve the code of the source tab while they were still editing it. If I inject a bunch a css using SetHTML or InsertHTML it would fill the source in the editor with a bunch of code I didn't want. Also who knows what kind of formatting the editor will do to the css code making it difficult to locate and replace on submit. I think I am going to try and trace through the code and see what I can find to use. When you put a link tag in the editor it is able to open and then parse that file, I am going to try and find a way to manually invoke that process except send a string of css code instead of a path to a file.

Thanks for the idea.