It could be really interesting to also experiment with looking at https://draftjs.org/ / providing a port or a in elm implementation of it.
https://github.com/thebritican/elm-editor seemed to have tried that, but there seemed no progress on that in the meantime. Am Mittwoch, 12. April 2017 06:20:44 UTC+1 schrieb Michael Lebow: > > I'm working on something that requires some WYSIWYG editor like > functionality. > > The way I'm thinking about it is inspired by the Basecamp Trix editor and > the Medium editor. Capture input events, create an internal model > representing the content, and then re-render. (Avoiding execCommand and > the differences that can cause with different browsers) > > ContentEditable seems to be the only way to accomplish this. A simple > input will not allow for some of the rich text features I plan to > implement. > > I have started an implementation of this and get stuck with the problem of > needing to manually set the cursor position after text is typed and the > html re-renders. (Currently, it jumps to the front of the content editable > div after every keystroke) It looks like maybe at one point in time this > was a problem with simple text inputs in elm too?? ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-discuss/I2JleY8bD7c) I'm > curios if anyone can direct me to the history of that bug and what the > solution was. > > This content editable cursor position issue is also brought up here: > https://github.com/elm-lang/virtual-dom/issues/23 > > > From my reading on this, it seems other's have brought up the idea of > making an WYSIWYG editor with Elm, but get stuck with the inability to do > things like window.getSelection() or interact with that selection e.g. > Selection.addRange() > This is brought up here - > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elm-dev/169IJRJsW6Q - and > seemingly left unresolved. > > If I'm willing to do the legwork, what's the best way to accomplish this > in Elm? If it's not currently possible with only Elm, what's the next best > thing? Is there a way I can build the APIs that Elm currently lacks for my > own use until the community determines the best way to incorporate them > into Elm? Should I be reaching for Ports? > > Thanks in advance! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
