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 <vjo...@gmail.com> 
>>> 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 <vjo...@gmail.com> 
>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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