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MartinM
MartinM

Reputation: 509

fire keyPressEvent in tinyMce

I'm customizing tinyMCE in Moodle (e-learning). I've added a toolbar button which sets focus into a text area and adds two dollar signs in it. What I need is to place cursor between those signs, so that user can start typing between them. Probably the best approach is just to press left arrow programaticlly, isn't it? But I can't figure out how to do that. Here is the code:

tinyMCE.init({
mode : "textareas",
theme : "advanced",
theme_advanced_buttons1 : "mybutton,bold,italic,underline,separator,strikethrough,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright, justifyfull,bullist,numlist,undo,redo,link,unlink",
theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
theme_advanced_buttons3 : "",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
plugins : 'inlinepopups',
setup : function(ed) {
    // Add a custom button
    ed.addButton('mybutton', {
        title : 'My button',
        image : 'img/example.gif',
        onclick : function() {
            ed.focus();
            ed.selection.setContent('$$');
        }
    });
}

}); Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2455

Answers (2)

Thariama
Thariama

Reputation: 50832

This should do what you desire:

ed.addButton('mybutton', {
    title : 'My button',
    image : 'img/example.gif',
    onclick : function() {  
        ed.focus();
        ed.selection.setContent('$<span id="my_marker">\u200b</span>$');
        var $marker = $(ed.getBody()).find('#my_marker');
        ed.selection.select($marker.get(0));
        $marker.remove();
    }
});

Upvotes: 2

Starx
Starx

Reputation: 78971

You can fire a keypress event using the following snippet.

var e = jQuery.Event('keypress');
e.keyCode = 37; //Left arrow keycode 
$(document).trigger(e);

Usage might be something like

onclick : function() {
    ed.focus();
    ed.selection.setContent('$$');
    var e = jQuery.Event('keypress');
    e.keyCode = 37; //Left arrow keycode 
    $(document).trigger(e);
}

Upvotes: 1

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