Editor cursor/focus issue

[oraknabo]

Is there a way to force a cursor into the editor window when there isn't any focus on the editor?

I wrote a little function that inserts selected content from outside the editor as a new paragraph at the cursor. This is useful for things like quoting on message boards. It always works fine if there is a cursor, but when I do it without a cursor, it adds an uneditable paragraph before the inserted content.

It seems to me the easiest solution is for me to force focus on the last line of the editor before inserting the outside content, but nothing I've tried with focus() works. Any suggestions?

[mr_lundis]

There is already a functions for this inside WYMeditor, see [urlhttp://trac.wymeditor.org/trac/wiki/0.5/API#insertdata]the docs[/url] for more info.

Cheers

[oraknabo]

Thanks for replying.

Yes, I'm already using insert(data) inside the function, the problem is that if there isn't focus on the browser window when you execute insert(data), it adds a paragraph before the inserted data that can not be edited.

I just want to make sure there is a cursor in the editor before insert(data) is called.

[mr_lundis]

In which browser(s) does this occur?

[oraknabo]

Firefox 3.0.6 on ubuntu 8.10
I haven't checked to see if it behaves any differently in another browser or OS.

[mr_lundis]

Okay, the issue here is that you're trying to insert block level content using insert, which was primary intended for inline content. The insert method falls back to the paste method if it can't find any selection within the editor, and the paste method doesn't handle non inline things very well.

First I tried to create a new selection inside the editor to avoid this, which worked somewhat well. But when I wanted to collapse the selection (so that insert wouldn't replace all the content) Firefox just kept throwing exceptions at me. So I went for another approach - appending the html elements directly to the body. Doing so works perfectly!

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html = "<p>A paragraph</p>";
wym = jQuery.wymeditors(0);
jQuery("body", wym._iframe.contentDocument).append(jQuery(html, wym._iframe.contentDocument));

Cheers!

[oraknabo]

Thanks, I'll try that.