Nevermind, I got it!! 100% self contained cross browser
non-proprietery rich edit control! This line of code did the trick:
document.getElementById('hidden text area').form.addEventListener(
"submit",
function(evt)
{
onRicheditBlur('rich edit control name');
},
true
);
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan Murphy) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hey guys,
>
> I've written a little php function that uses the IE DHTML control for
> Internet Explorer, and I'm attempting to extend it so that it uses a
> contentEditable iframe with Mozilla 1.3 and greater.
>
> I've got the iframe working great, but the problem is I'm having
> trouble extracting the value from the iframe. Typically, what I do
> with Internet Explorer is I add an onBlur event handler to the WYSIWYG
> object that copies the value into a hidden text area. This allows me
> to build a 100% self contained control that doesn't require anything
> other than a SINGLE reference within your php document (example for
> the curious):
>
> <? richedit('name', 'attr="value" style="width:100%;"'); ?>
>
> Now, my problem is, with Mozilla it appears that the iframe doesn't
> support the onblur event. I've also tried setting onblur for the
> iframe contentWindow property using blur, onblur, and onBlur to no
> avail. Example:
>
> document.getElementById('iframeid').contentWindow.blur =
> "onBlur();";
>
> Needless to say I'm a bit stuck. I would MUCH prefer to not have any
> javascript code for this control clutter up the rest of my page. To
> do that, I need some way to extract the value of the rich edit control
> and copy it into a hidden form field. I don't want to do it when the
> form is submitted because this would require inserting javascript
> outside of the richedit() function reference in my php code.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Bryan
