FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

Hi I am trying to insert a string at the cursor position in the editor.

According to some post that i read in this forum "InsertHtml" is suppose to do just that. But when i use InsertHtml my string gets inserted / appended to the beginning of the editors string. Am i maybe missing something?

Does anybody have any solution for me.

Thanks Wayne

Tue, 03/15/2005 - 09:59

waynebarker

Joined: 12/03/2005

Posts: 8

RE: FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

Hi I forgot to post my code so here goes:

function insertTextAtCaret(text)
{
var Hid = document.all['W_449:USR_HTMLEditor1:USR_TextConstantPicker1:hidHTMLEditorName'];
var editor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance(Hid.value + ":FCKeditor1");
editor.InsertHtml(text);
}

Thu, 03/17/2005 - 11:53

waynebarker

Joined: 12/03/2005

Posts: 8

RE: FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

Can anybody please help me.

Wed, 03/23/2005 - 06:26

johnohod

Joined: 18/05/2005

Posts: 7

RE: FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

I had the same problem, but I found the solution in sample nr 8: "Editor API Usage".

Write your own InsertHTML-function like this:
function InsertHTML()
{
// Get the editor instance that we want to interact with.
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('FCKeditor1') ;

// Check the active editing mode.
if ( oEditor.EditMode == FCK_EDITMODE_WYSIWYG )
{
// Insert the desired HTML.
oEditor.InsertHtml( '- This is some <b>sample</b> HTML -' ) ;
}
else
alert( 'You must be on WYSIWYG mode!' ) ;
}

Change "FCKeditor1" to the name of your instance. And all is well!

Fri, 03/25/2005 - 23:49

waynebarker

Joined: 12/03/2005

Posts: 8

RE: FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

Thanks, i found my problem: I was using a contextmenu control from the PeterBlum controls for .NET and this was causing this funny behaviour.

The context menus display constant values that i would like to insert into the Fckeditor - but what happened is that every time the context menu appeared the editor was losing focus and the javascript was inserting the text to the begning of the editor - because that is where the cursor was after receiving focus again.

So i had to drop the context menu

Mon, 03/28/2005 - 14:52

calophi

Joined: 25/03/2005

Posts: 47

RE: FckEditor.InsertHtml() not working

Couldn't you have switched the focus of the window before the value is inserted? As in you tell it what to insert, it refocuses the window onto the editor, and then you call the insert?