insertHTML from external button

Hello,

Ive just started using CKEditor, Ive followed the tutorial to get the timestamp button to insertHTML.

If i want to have an external button on the website how can i add that to add text into my CKEditor textarea?

Thanks
Pete

Thu, 08/30/2012 - 13:39

reinmar

Joined: 24/08/2012

Posts: 631

Re: insertHTML from external button

Please check out the samples/api.html (you can find it in the CKEditor package you downloaded and also here: http://nightly.ckeditor.com/7597/_samples/api.html).

There's exactly what you need - HTML button inserting content (of the textarea in this case) to the currently focused editor. If you want to do the same for one specific editor, just call

.insertHtml()

on the right editor instance (which's returned by CKEDITOR.replace() or which you can get from CKEDITOR.instances).

Piotrek (Reinmar) Koszuliński
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Thu, 08/30/2012 - 22:06

2bladepete

Joined: 30/08/2012

Posts: 3

Re: insertHTML from external button

Hi,

I managed to get it working from the txtArea like in the example. is it possible to have it so the text is in the button like insertHTML('<p>Hello There</p>');

Im really bad at javascript so dont have a clue how i can parse that into it.