[ace] How to use Ace in a form?

[Steven Campbell]

I want to use Ace in an HTML textarea element, but there doesn't seem
to be any documentation on this. It seems only to work with non-form
elements like div and pre.

Alternatively, is there any Javascript code I could use to pull the
contents of Ace into a variable? I was originally doing it with
textarea's "value" attribute, but if Ace can't work with textareas, is
there another way to pull the content?

[Kevin Dangoor]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Steven Campbell <d.steven...@gmail.com> wrote:

I want to use Ace in an HTML textarea element, but there doesn't seem
to be any documentation on this. It seems only to work with non-form
elements like div and pre.

Bespin has code that will transparently upgrade a textarea (it keeps the textarea around but hides it and stuffs the contents of Bespin into the textarea for form posting and such).

This code has not been ported forward to Ace (patches accepted :)
 

Alternatively, is there any Javascript code I could use to pull the
contents of Ace into a variable? I was originally doing it with
textarea's "value" attribute, but if Ace can't work with textareas, is
there another way to pull the content?

Yes, this you can definitely do...

document.getElementById("editor").env.document.getValue()

will do it for a div or whatever with the ID of editor, I believe.

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[Giles Thomas]

Steven Campbell wrote:
> Alternatively, is there any Javascript code I could use to pull the
> contents of Ace into a variable? I was originally doing it with
> textarea's "value" attribute, but if Ace can't work with textareas, is
> there another way to pull the content

Try this:

// Setup
editor = ace.edit("my_div");

// Read
text = editor.getSession().getValue()

Cheers,

Giles

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[Ramon]

Cool. I'm excited for this! It'd be a lot nicer to have a drag and drop replacement of textareas. Having to add extra js code to manage each textarea replacement is, well, dirty :)