CKeditor How To

Basic Creation Function

To create the editor you need a textarea element and an id attribute set as below:

<textarea name="editor1" id="editor1" style="display:none;" rows="" cols=""></textarea>

The full editor, with all the plugins active, can be initialized with the following code:

// SET A VARIABLE TO KEEP THE EDITOR ELEMENT
var editor;

// READY FUNCTION
$(function(){

        CKEDITOR.replace("editor1",{
        // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR-method-replace

                on: {
                // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.config-cfg-on

                        instanceReady: function(ev){
                        // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.editor-event-instanceReady

                                editor = ev.editor;

                                // The editor is ready and the content should be set here

                                $(window).resize();
                        },

                        dataReady: function(ev){
                        // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.editor-event-dataReady
                        }

                }
                ,height: 400

                /* START READONLY SETTINGS */
                ,readOnly: true
                ,removePlugins: 'showborders,imageattacher'
                ,toolbarGroups: ['mode', 'document', 'find', 'tools']
                /* END READONLY SETTINGS */
        });

        CKEDITOR.on( 'currentInstance', function() {
        // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR-event-currentInstance
        } );


});

A much smaller version with just the essentials can be created with the following code (this is useful for a simple rich text editor):

pmis.ckeditor.basic('salary-editor', {
        on: {
                instanceReady : function(ev) {
                        // http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.editor-event-instanceReady

                        // load the content here
                        ev.editor.setData('ciao mamma!');

                        $(window).resize();
                }
        },
        width : '100%',
        height : 'auto',

        // if you need preview and print plugins
        extraPlugins: 'preview,print',

        // put the editor in readonly mode
        readOnly: true
});

See also

This function create a simple editor, most of the features are disabled.

pmis.ckeditor.basic("editor1", {
        on: {
                instanceReady: function(ev){
                        editor = ev.editor;
                }
        },
        width: 600,
        height: 300
});

Then you can get the editor element with:

CKEDITOR.instances['editor1']

Editor Document DOM Element

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].document.$;

Get the content of the editor

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].getData()

Set the content of the editor

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].setData( data, {
        callback: function(){
                /* after set content */
        },
        noSnapshot: true
});

Print the content

CKEDITOR.print(editor)

//or

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].print()

Download the content

CKEDITOR.download(editor, filename)

//or

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].download(filename)

Get the full HTML content

CKEDITOR.getFullHTMLContent(editor)

//or

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].getFullHTMLContent()

Toggle the editor READONLY mode

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].setReadOnly( false|true );

Resize the editor

See also

http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR.editor-method-resize

CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].resize( width, height )

Destroy all editor instances at once

for(name in CKEDITOR.instances){
        CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].destroy(true);
}

Update textarea Element

updateElement()
Updates the <textarea> element that was replaced by the editor with the current data available in the editor.
CKEDITOR.instances['edtior-id-here'].updateElement();