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Appending HTML to textarea value

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Topic: Appending HTML to textarea value

Posted By: pjodoin
Subject: Appending HTML to textarea value
Date Posted: 29 September 2006 at 6:18pm

Hi,

In the current page, there is an editable DIV area acting as a textarea for user input:

and there is a button on this page to open up a new window for user to append some text to the DIV area. So on the new window page, I have some javascript to do the job:

window.opener.DocContent.innerHTML=window.opener.DocContent<%= controlName%>.innerHTML + "text to be appended";

Now we would like to replace the DIV area by the RTE textarea, is there any way to do the same thing and append the text to the RTE textarea value?

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 30 September 2006 at 2:20am

Scrap the editable DIV area, turn it into a regular textarea and then apply the RTE to it.

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Posted By: pjodoin
Date Posted: 02 October 2006 at 2:34pm

we have done that sucesfully, except that after we do that, we can no longer dynamically insert links into that same textarea. SInce we must be able to insert links in that area, we were wondering if you had any ideas on how to incorporate both

Thanks

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 02 October 2006 at 11:46pm

See this post might help, if not have a look through some of the others in teh forum:-

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=21391

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Posted By: pjodoin
Date Posted: 03 October 2006 at 3:13pm

No luck. I try to put

window.opener.document.getElementById('MyRTE').contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML = window.opener.document.getElementById('MyRTE').contentWindow.document.body.innerHTML + "Text to append";

but it doesn't update the content in the RTE.

Thanks,

Paul

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 04 October 2006 at 10:12am

This would need to be run after the RTE has loaded.

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