Aaron,

You are right, of course.
I somehow expected that to work due to mixing in my mind the event object
with the source of the event.
My bad. :)



On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Aaron VonderHaar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Peter, I'd guess the decoder in your onChange is failing, causing the
> event not to send a Msg. The decoder is going to get an event object, not a
> DOM node, which is probably why decoding an "innerHTML" property is
> failing.  (Did your comment mean that your event handler does work for
> non-contentEditable divs?)
>
> On Aug 30, 2016 2:46 AM, "Peter Damoc" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I've tried a naive implementation in Elm but, for some reason, it doesn't
>> work (events are not fired for divs that have content editable)
>>
>> import Html exposing (..)
>> import Html.Attributes exposing (..)
>> import Html.App exposing (beginnerProgram)
>> import Html.Events exposing (on)
>> import Json.Encode as JE
>> import Json.Decode as JD exposing ((:=))
>>
>>
>> main =
>>   beginnerProgram { model = "", view = view, update = update }
>>
>>
>> onContent tagger =
>>   on "input" (JD.map tagger ("innerHTML" := JD.string))
>>
>> view model =
>>   div []
>>     [ div [property "innerHTML" (JE.string model), onContent OnChange,
>> contenteditable True][]
>>     ]
>>
>>
>> type Msg = OnChange String
>>
>>
>> update msg model =
>>   case (Debug.log "msg:" msg) of
>>     OnChange str -> str
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Vincent Jousse <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm writing an application where the user needs to edit some HTML
>>> content. When I first wrote this application in JS, I was using some
>>> contenteditable fields to do so.
>>>
>>> How should I handle this with Elm? My problem is that if I set a div
>>> with contenteditable=true in elm, and that the content of this div depends
>>> on my model state, when an user edits the HTML, my model is now out of sync.
>>> Maybe getting the innerHTML field when the user is changing the content
>>> of the div and set this to a field in my model? But how would I do to
>>> convert this string back to some Html.div/Html.span/whatever code in Elm?
>>> The tricky part is that I need to handle events on spans that are in the
>>> div with contenteditable=true.
>>>
>>> I tried to do it using Ports and Draft-js but the problem is that I now
>>> have 2 states in my application: one in Elm and one in JS/React. Then, all
>>> the beauty of "my application just depends on my Elm model state" is not
>>> true anymore, as I know need to sync the 2 states…
>>>
>>> Not sure if I'm really clear, but thanks for reading this anyway ;-)
>>>
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