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!
>

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