prettifying innerHTML from Contenteditable div - javascript

I am trying to make an editor using contenteditible div(this div will show the rendered content but will also allow user to make changes by typing and other toolbar tools like bold, italic and so on), lets call this editor renditor, I also want to show the innerHTML of contenteditible div in another div for which I am using ace-editor for angular(https://github.com/fxmontigny/ng2-ace-editor) with mode html(lets call it coditor) but the problem I am facing is when I toggle from renditor to coditor(I take innerHTML of renditor div and plug it into coditor div) the renditor changes the look of innerHTML in its own mysterious way which results in overflows in coditor.
I have tried to use a pipe in angular with code provided from this answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/43794051/4961540) but that even worsen the issue by breaking the html. I also feel renditor div is responsible for this because in past I didn't used separate div like coditor to show the code rather I just toggled in the same div using tags like pre and some other helper functions even then the html looked like it is looking now in coditor. Also it feels like renditor is responsible for it because I have observed when I set innerHTML of renditor to full html page source, it strips out html tags and some other tags so it is indeed making some changes to innerHTML and also how it looks.
<div class="mat-typography textBox editable" style="margin: 16px;"
[hidden]="isSourceVisible"
(input)="mSimpleTask.html=$event.target.innerHTML"contenteditable="true">
</div>
<div class="ace_tooltip" [hidden]="!isSourceVisible" ace-editor
[(text)]="mSimpleTask.html"
[mode]="'html'"
class="textBox ace-editor"
[theme]="'eclipse'"
[readOnly]="false"
[autoUpdateContent]="true"
[durationBeforeCallback]="1000"
(textChanged)="this.mSimpleTask.html=$event;"
style="overflow-wrap: break-word;margin: 16px">
</div>
I am looking to convert/extract innerHTML from renditor in such a way that html looks neat with proper line breaks and no overflows in coditor. Can you throw some light on how I can achieve that or even better if you can provide code with your implementation in the past ?

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need to add contentEditable=false to p tag inside CKEditor

i need inside my CKEditor some boilerplate verbiage that is not editable, then the rest of the my string information. I concatenate the boilerplate verbiage [which is in a p tag], to a string variable that my CKEditor displays inside a certain div. By the time the verbiage, here:
<p id='abc' contentEditable='false'>verbiage</p>
... and the string information is displayed on the page, they are deep inside a number of nested tags - within a body with multiple classes. So both the verbiage, which is now in only a p tag with no attributes[they got stripped out], is nested way inside the original body tag [the first body tag, way up in the page] with lots and lots of divs, then finally comes an iframe, then ... the verbiage and string are like this:
<body contenteditable="true" class="cke_editable cke_editable_themed cke_contents_ltr cke_show_borders" spellcheck="false">
<p>boilerplate verbiage</p>
...then the rest of the information is displayed in the editor, inside various spans, etc. i need to make the boilerplate verbiage readonly, contentEditable='false'. Yet everything I try both from the console in Chrome, and in code.... nothing changes that boilerplate verbiage tag. i have tried various things, including these - perhaps you can see where I need to tweak something; and i hope this will show you things i have tried and that i am run out of options so far:
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").first().contentEditable='false';
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").attr("readonly", "1");
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders p:first-child").contentEditable='false';
jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").find( "p" ).contentEditable='false';
jQuery("iframe", ".cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").contents().find("p").contentEditable='false';
jQuery("iframe", "body .cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders").contents().find("p").contentEditable='false';
var editor= jQuery("body", ".cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders");
editor.val(editor.val().replace(/<p>/gi, "<p class='tiny_p'>"))
var editor= jQuery("body.cke_editable.cke_editable_themed.cke_contents_ltr.cke_show_borders");
editor.val(editor.val().replace(/<p>/gi, "<p class='tiny_p'>"))
yet if i hard code in the Chrome browser, contenteditable="false",
it works perfectly. So, how can i access that p tag and assign it this attribute?
It really depends on moment and how you want to access, one option to access directly from separate script.
CKEDITOR.instances[YOUR_INSTANCE].window.$.document.getElementById("your_p_tag")
Note, that it should be done after CKEDITOR initilized
UPDATE:
CKEDITOR.instances[YOUR_INSTANCE].window.$.document.body.firstChild

Updating a simple jQuery / CSS code

I was hoping someone could help me out with this simple question: I’ve just started to learn jQuery and found a code to show hidden text after selecting an item.
I’d like to update it so that:
a.) The selected item is bold
b.) I can add placeholder text instead of starting off with a blank hidden text field
I foolishly assumed I could solve a.) by using the :active property in css, but that only works as long as the link is clicked on. (As soon as you release the mouse button it’s gone.) Just like b.), this is probably only possible by using jQuery as well? If so, would be really great if you could show me how to solve it. :)
The codes: http://jsfiddle.net/KUtY5/1/
JS
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#nav a").click(function(){
var id = $(this).attr('id');
id = id.split('_');
$("#menu_container div").hide();
$("#menu_container #menu_"+id[1]).show();
});
});
CSS
#menu_container {
width: 650px;
height: auto;
padding-left: 30px;
}
#menu_container div {
display:none;
}
HTML
<div id='nav'>
<a id="show_apps">Appetizers</a> | <a id="show_soups">Soups and Salads</a> | <a id="show_entrees">Entrees</a>
</div>
<div id="menu_container">
<div id="menu_apps">
Content of the App Section Here
</div>
<div id="menu_soups">
Content of the Soups Section Here
</div>
<div id="menu_entrees">
Content of the Entrees Section Here
</div>
</div>
Updated fiddle
You can realize a) using a custom class bold for example and the following code :
CSS
.bold{ font-weight: bold;}
JS
$(this).addClass('bold').siblings('a').removeClass('bold');
For b) I can't find any textfield in your code.
Hope this helps.
I have added some extra lines to your code and you can check it from here http://jsfiddle.net/KUtY5/483/.
You bold like this
$("#nav a").css("font-weight", 400); // First you make them thin
$(this).css("font-weight", 800); // Than you make them bold
You put placeholder like this
<div id="placeholder">
Placeholder
</div>
$("#placeholder").hide();
On the other hand I recommend you not to hide menu container. Rather hide the elements inside the menu_container. So you can put a plcaeholder in menu container and you can hide it.
To figure this out 2 questions must be asked / solved
how do you normally make text bold on a page... css right?
where do you want those styles to be defined? There are 2 places:
a. You can define it inside the javascript.
b. You can define it inside the projects css through normal methods (inline, external, embedded).
What's the difference? If you define it inside the javascript the code is self-contained. What i mean by that is you can copy/paste the JS code from one project to the next and you don't need to worry about copying related styles from the stylesheets or other sources because it's all in the JQuery that you've written.
In contrast if you define it outside the javascript in the regular places the code may not be self-contained however some find it easier to manage in the scope of that particular project because all your css is contained in one place (external stylesheet typically).
If you want to take option a, see the .css() method
If you want to take option b, see the style manipulation (toggle class in particular)
Note the examples in the above references should get you 90% of the way to understanding it.
Some final words. Learn Jquery, but i advise you to stay away from it as much as possible because it implements DOM thrashing instead of DOM caching (sizzle engine).
This video series will briefly go into why Jquery sucks for performance in the first video and the rest of the series is about how to create modular vanilla JS.
JQuery goes back and searches the DOM every time you need to make a change that is what
$.(*element*) is doing instead of just caching it.
The more nodes you have in the DOM the more processing power is used searching (because it has to go through the entire tree).
Then on top of that the more elements you have to make changes to (say if you use a css class selector) you have to add even more processing on top of that.
All this is fine if you're on a desktop, but what about a mobile platform? Where would you get all this processing power from?... It doesn't exist.

div in headline tag autocloses

I've got this HTML-Content. I knew that this is not correct HTML but I can't change it because it's user generated by a WYSIWG-Editor and this mistake was done hundered of times by users:
<div>
<H2 style="COLOR: #0000ff"> <DIV align=left>TEXT<br /></H2></STRONG>
</DIV>
</div><br />
Problem is that the Div AFTER the H2 Tag is closed AFTER the closing Tag from the H2.
What happens is that the H2 autocloses the enclosed DIV and the original closes the Div above.
As I can't change the Sourcecode in those masses of Content-Files, is there a way to prevent this behaviour with CSS???
CSS won't fix this. If this is generated by the editor specifically then you need a new editor. If you're setting content in JavaScript based on the content of an editable region you might be in luck. Browsers auto-close tags as the content is assigned. Say you have JavaScript to handle that content, and you're assigning that HTML to an element. When it's assigned to the element it will add the closing tag, and then when you go to programmatically close the tag at the correct time you'll get the duplicate close. I found when I do this I need to store the HTML into a string var temporarily, and then assign the HTML when it's all complete. If you need a quick lightweight html5 editor I have one at http://www.makrit.net/5edit

setting content between div tags using javascript

I'm trying to set some content in between some div tags on a JSP page using javascript.
currently the div tag on the JSP page looks like this:
<div id="successAndErrorMessages"></div>
I want to fill the content in those div tags using some javascript method so that it will look like so:
<div id="successAndErrorMessages"><div class="portlet-msg-error">This is an error message</div></div>
I know you can go like this:
document.getElementById("successAndErrorMessages").value="someContent";
But that just changes the value of the 'value' attribute. It doesn't fill in content between those div tags. Anyone out there that can point me in the right direction?
Try the following:
document.getElementById("successAndErrorMessages").innerHTML="someContent";
msdn link for detail : innerHTML Property
See Creating and modifying HTML at what used to be called the Web Standards Curriculum.
Use the createElement, createTextNode and appendChild methods.
If the number of your messages is limited then the following may help. I used jQuery for the following example, but it works with plain js too.
The innerHtml property did not work for me. So I experimented with ...
<div id=successAndErrorMessages-1>100% OK</div>
<div id=successAndErrorMessages-2>This is an error mssg!</div>
and toggled one of the two on/off ...
$("#successAndErrorMessages-1").css('display', 'none')
$("#successAndErrorMessages-2").css('display', '')
For some reason I had to fiddle around with the ordering before it worked in all types of browsers.

jQuery appended text is invisible

I'm trying to create a couple of buttons above a textarea to insert some HTML code -- a VERY poor-man's HTML editor. I have a couple of INPUT elements, and I'm using jQuery to set a click handler that will call's jQuery's append() or html() or text() functions.
The handler fires, it shows a debug alert(), but the text I'm trying to append doesn't show up in the textarea. When I inspect the textarea in Firebug, I see the text I'm appending as a child of the textarea -- but it's dimmed, as when an element's style is set to display:none. But Firebug's CSS inspector doesn't show any change to the display or visibility properties.
When I set the click handler to 'append()', and then click multiple times, in Firebug I see the text being added over and over again -- but each new chunk is still invisible. If I choose 'Edit HTML' in Firebug and then type some chars next to the appended text, the entire text block -- the text added by jQuery and the stuff I added in Firebug -- suddenly appear.
This also happens if I don't use a click handler, but call my append function using an inline handler like onclick="javascript:insert('bold');"
Anyone have any idea why the appended text is not displayed?
Here's the relevant code:
The HTML:
<input type='button' id='bold' value='B' onclick='javascript:insert("bold")' />
<textarea name='PersonalGreeting' id='PersonalGreeting'>default text</textarea>
The Javascript:
function insert( cmd ) {
switch ( cmd ) {
case 'bold':
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('<b>bold text here</b>');
break;
}
}
I would guess that jQuery is trying to append HTML DOM elements to the textarea.
Try using the val method to get and set the textarea's value, like this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').val($('#PersonalGreeting').val() + '<b>bold text here</b>');
The basic problem is that you can't put HTML inside a <textarea>. In fact, you can't append HTML elements to one at all. You could use the .val() method to change the text shown inside, but that won't make it bold. That will just make it have <b> showing as part of the text.
An off-the-shelf WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE is free and easy to implement. Rather than reinvent the wheel (which is a lot harder than it might look), try an existing wheel out.
SLaks and VoteyDisciple are correct. You're usage of append is faulty as you are perceiving it as a string function.
From http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/append
Append content to the inside of every
matched element. This operation is the
best way to insert elements inside, at
the end, of all matched elements. It
is similar to doing an appendChild to
all the specified elements, adding
them into the document.
Reinventing the wheel on this one is likely more headache than its worth unless this is an attempt to create a superior, competing product or for your own experimentation.
Also, I would shy away from use of obtrusive JavaScript as you have shown in your example with onclick='javascript:insert("bold")' embedded in the input element. Instead, you'll have a more elegant solution with something like the following:
HTML
<input type="button" value="B" class="editor-command" >
<input type="button" value="I" class="editor-command" >
<input type="button" value="U" class="editor-command" >
JavaScript (not tested)
$(document).ready(function() {
var textarea = $('#PersonalGreeting')
$(".editor-command").each(function(i, node) {
textarea.val(textarea.val() + '<$>text here</$>'.replace(/\$/g, node.value);
});
});
If the main issue is the textarea not being visible, I would try this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('<b>bold text here</b>').show();
Might be worth a shot.
edit: In the vain of not trying to reinvent the wheel, I've had success with WYMEditor
You could do this:
$('#PersonalGreeting').append('[b]bold text here[/b]');
But that won't actually render the text as bold. To be honest I'm not actually sure how to render text as bold inside a textarea, I imainge some js trickery.

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