I am using PrimeFaces 7 and its TextEditor component, which uses internally the free and open-source editor Quill
I need to add a custom HTML button, which, when selected, inserts the word selected on the current position of the cursor in the TextEditor - (in the Quill)
It is possible to add custom buttons in the Quill Editor and to attach EventListeners to them, as shown here:
https://quilljs.com/docs/modules/toolbar/
(Please look at this part of the above page):
var customButton = document.querySelector('#custom-button');
customButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
console.log('Clicked!');
});
There is also an API provided by the Quill editor to insert text at a given position, see here:
https://quilljs.com/docs/api/#content
have a look at this mehod:
`quill.insertText(0, 'Hello', 'bold', true);`
However, I do miss a couple of things:
1.) The definition of the custom-button shall be done in the toolbar div, as specified in the following code:
`<div id="toolbar">
<!-- But you can also add your own -->
<button id="custom-button"></button>`
However: how could I do that, when using ready PrimeFaces Text Editor component?
I locally tried this:
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
var customButton = document.getElementById("resultsFormId:quillToolbarId_toolbar:custButId");
if (customButton!=null){
return;
}
customButton = document.createElement("button");
customButton.innerHTML = 'Params';
customButton.id="resultsFormId:quillToolbarId_toolbar:custButId";
var qlTollbar = document.getElementById("resultsFormId:quillToolbarId_toolbar");
qlTollbar.appendChild(customButton);
customButton.addEventListener('click', function() {
Quill.insertText(0, 'Hello', 'bold', true);
console.log('Clicked!');
});
});
});
and could say the following:
1.1) The custom button gets inserted on the Quill toolbar (is not nice and styled, but it is there)
1.2) When I click the custom button, first the EventListener gets executed. This is OK,but here:
Quill.insertText(0, 'Hello', 'bold', true);
instead of Quill.insertText()., I need a reference to the js-object representing the Quill editor. === > Could you help?
1.3) after the EventListener from Point (1.2) gets executed, my whole code under
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
jQuery(document).ready(function () {
gets executed once again, the id of the customButton is not found, and it is recreated once again. ===> Could I avoid that?
2.) In the code for the insertion of a text on a specific position, I need to get the last position the cursor was, before the user clicked (selected the option on the) custom button.
How can I do that?