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Get Plain Text in Javascript

Last post 08-03-2011, 9:21 AM by FLJoe. 3 replies.


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08-02-2011, 9:44 PM 69204

FLJoe
Joined on 06-22-2011
Posts 7

Get Plain Text in Javascript

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Is there a method that I can use in JavaScript to get the plain text in the Editor? Someththing similar to the getHTML?

I want to use it to get the current length of the plain text in an OnChange event.

Joe

08-03-2011, 2:00 AM 69211 in reply to 69204

Mangoramos973
Joined on 08-03-2011
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Re: Get Plain Text in Javascript

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08-03-2011, 7:07 AM 69215 in reply to 69204

Kenneth
Joined on 02-13-2008
Posts 3,886

Re: Get Plain Text in Javascript

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Hi FLJoe,

please try the example below

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>

<%@ Register Assembly="CuteEditor" Namespace="CuteEditor" TagPrefix="CE" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
    <title>GetPlainText</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <CE:Editor ID="editor1" runat="server">
        </CE:Editor>
        <input type="button" value="GetPlainText" onclick="GetPlainText()" />
        <div id="plainText" style="visibility: hidden">
        </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

<script>
function isIE() {
    if (window.navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie") != -1) return true;
    else return false;
}

function GetPlainText() {

    var editor1 = document.getElementById('<%= editor1.ClientID %>');
    var plainText = document.getElementById("plainText");
    plainText.innerHTML = editor1.GetHTML();
    var text;
    if (isIE()) {
        text = plainText.innerText;
    }
    else {
        text = plainText.textContent;
    }
    alert(text);
    plainText.innerHTML = "";
}
</script>

Regards,

ken

08-03-2011, 9:21 AM 69226 in reply to 69215

FLJoe
Joined on 06-22-2011
Posts 7

Re: Get Plain Text in Javascript

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Hi Ken,

Thank you, That works great .

Instead of placing an extra div on the page itself , is there any downside to substituting with this inside the function?

Use

var plainText = document.createElement("plainText");

in place of

var plainText = document.getElementById("plainText");

Thanks,

Joe