The main "hack" I had to do was to wait on the Javascript side for the DOM 
element to be rendered by ELM.

A setTimeout recursively checking if the element exists (and so if I can 
attach a CKEditor to it) did the trick.

Le mardi 27 septembre 2016 01:26:45 UTC+2, Steve Jones a écrit :
>
> Well, I'm not sure yet. But I think it was to do do with dom lifecycle and 
> timing (I haven't tried CKeditor yet though. So far, I've tried tinymce and 
> quill). Things that work with static HTML do not with HTML generated with 
> elm. I've not found a lot of people doing this sort of thing successfully, 
> so I'm mostly trying to determine what's been done.
>
> Quill gives me "Invalid Quill container". And tinymce just silently fails 
> to do anything.
>
>
> On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 7:01:16 PM UTC-4, Vincent Jousse wrote:
>>
>> Yes it works for me.
>>
>> What's your problem exactly?
>>
>> Le lundi 26 septembre 2016 23:54:49 UTC+2, Steve Jones a écrit :
>>>
>>> Vincent,
>>>
>>> So, you've had some success with CKeditor? I'm having some difficulty 
>>> getting any of these rich text editors to work within my app. I have tried 
>>> CKeditor yet though.
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 9:34:19 AM UTC-4, Vincent Jousse wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nice trick :D
>>>>
>>>> I think I'll stay with my CKeditor solution for the moment, but thanks 
>>>> a lot anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Le mercredi 31 août 2016 16:02:30 UTC+2, Damir Batinović a écrit :
>>>>>
>>>>> I had to use contenteditable in my project. The true way to handling 
>>>>> cursor position was to hard (I don't remeber what it was but I thing it 
>>>>> involves window.selection) so I went with a  dirty hack. Added another 
>>>>> field to my model (tmpInput), saving input events into that field until 
>>>>> Blur event was fired. Upon blur event tmpInput is copied to real input. 
>>>>> So 
>>>>> model and view are out of sync until blur happens. It's not nice but 
>>>>> there 
>>>>> where no problems with implementation so far.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dana utorak, 30. kolovoza 2016. u 17:18:37 UTC+2, korisnik Vincent 
>>>>> Jousse napisao je:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I didn't but it's a very good idea :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you see a way to overcome the cursor position problem with that 
>>>>>> approach?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Le mardi 30 août 2016 17:16:21 UTC+2, Peter Damoc a écrit :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It makes perfect sense. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Have you thought about putting contenteditable on each individual 
>>>>>>> span? 
>>>>>>> This should allow for single word editing and for individual double 
>>>>>>> clicks. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Vincent Jousse <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I mainly need double click events. I'm doing a transcription 
>>>>>>>> editor: I'm using a Speech To Text tool to generate words with their 
>>>>>>>> timestamps.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm putting the words in a contenteditable div so that people can 
>>>>>>>> correct the transcription, and each word is surrounded by a span 
>>>>>>>> containing 
>>>>>>>> the timestamp info in some data- attribute.
>>>>>>>> When people double click on the span, I want the audio player to 
>>>>>>>> play the file starting at this timestamp. And when the audio is 
>>>>>>>> playing, I 
>>>>>>>> want the «current word» to be highlighted in the contenteditable div.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does it make sense?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Le mardi 30 août 2016 16:36:10 UTC+2, Peter Damoc a écrit :
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Well, it was a naive approach. ^_^ 
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> As for events inside the contenteditable div, I have no idea but 
>>>>>>>>> what kind of events do you want to handle in this kind of a scenario?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 5:11 PM, Vincent Jousse <[email protected]> 
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks, but I would not say that it's "working" as it seems that 
>>>>>>>>>> the cursor position is reset after each event, causing the text to 
>>>>>>>>>> be 
>>>>>>>>>> written from right to left :-)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> It's seems related to this issue: 
>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/elm-lang/virtual-dom/issues/23
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> And with this approach (storing a string), how could I trigger 
>>>>>>>>>> events on the HTML inside the contenteditable div?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>>>> There is NO FATE, we are the creators.
>>>>>>>>> blog: http://damoc.ro/
>>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
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