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#113183 Javacript access to content

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Latest post by yannickgaultier on Tuesday, 07 March 2023 15:27 GMT

Tuesday, 07 March 2023 12:10 GMT

yannickgaultier
Hi Ryan, Yannick from Weeblr here, hope you're doing well.

For several of my extensions (4SEO, 4Podcast and some more to come), I am in need for accessing the content editor with javascript.
Nothing fancy, things like:
- getting and setting the current editor content (as HTML)
- possibly getting user selection position, or getting the selected HTML

Both Joomla 3 and Joomla 4, but J4 is a priority.

Do you have some doc on how to "officially" do that? or what'd be your advice on the most compatible way to do this with JCE?

I mean by that: if I can have the same code for both Joomla TinyMCE and JCE, it's best.

Thanks for any pointer,

Yannick Gaultier
https://weeblr.com




Tuesday, 07 March 2023 15:08 GMT

Ryan
JCE does implement the Joomla Editor API functions (where id is the id value of the textarea) : 

Joomla.editors.instances[id].getValue();
Joomla.editors.instances[id].setValue(value);
Joomla.editors.instances[id].getSelection();
Joomla.editors.instances[id].replaceSelection(value);

Ryan Demmer

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Tuesday, 07 March 2023 15:27 GMT

yannickgaultier
Thanks, I had thought so but best to confirm!

Cheers