James,
Welcome to the club of CFTEXTAREA richtext="true" features & How to issues.
I had to do accomplish something like this but in our case we had a link on
same page as the rich text box.
This is how I did it and I will blog about it soon. Even though it looks
simple, I literally spent 4 nights thinking about the solution. To top it
off, my co worker had already given up saying cant get ID as it changes
dynamically every time, which made sense to me. I wanted to give one last
try and luckily ( I mean it) I stumbled across new CF 9/10 javascript
functions for Ajax controls. In this case
ColdFusion.RichText.getEditorObject. So part1 was done, now to insertText,
I read docs about fckEditor and they had InsertHtml function. Problem
solved. :-)
<script type="text/javascript">
function fnInsertText (variableName)
{
var richtextEditor =
ColdFusion.RichText.getEditorObject('letterVerbiage');
richtextEditor.InsertHtml(variableName);
}
</script>
and in the same page, we have this link <a href="##"
onclick="fnInsertText('#variableNameUpper#');">#variableNameUpper#</a><br>
HTH.
(off topic, I wish I could attend the meetings).
<Ajas Mohammed />
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Seth Bienek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Provide an ID attribute in the CFTEXTAREA tag?
>
> Seth
> On Jun 22, 2012 7:08 AM, "James Husum" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> My users want to be able to keep a small library of pre-written text that
>> they can insert into a textarea on a form. I've got the pieces of text
>> stored in the database. I have the javascript worked out so they can open a
>> new window with the lists of text, select the piece of text from the list,
>> then automagically insert it into the text box. Here comes the tricky bit.
>>
>> The users also want to have a WYSIWYG editor on the text box so they can
>> format the text. This is easy enough to do if I use the built in CF
>> features and use the CFtextarea tag. However, CF generates a random ID
>> attribute each time you load the page, which makes it difficult to have a
>> constant ID to refer to from the other javascript that fills in the form.
>>
>> Anyone got any bright ideas on how to get around this?
>>
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