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GhostText cannot detect or edit TinyMCE content

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#311 opened on Jun 19, 2024

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Description

Description and repro

Many technologies, including Moodle are adopting TinyMCE as their preferred Rich Text Editor, moving away from other RTE's such as ATTO.

GhostText is unable to detect or interact with content within TinyMCE. My suspicion is twofold:

  1. That the TinyMCE editor loads within an iframe
  2. That the TinyMCE editor itself does not contain a <textarea> element. Rather, it seems to update a hidden textarea field in the parent/lauching doc.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Visit Basic example | TinyMCE Documentation
  2. Attempt to use GhostText to connect to your preferred IDE (for me, this is SublimeText)

Browser(s) tried

Chrome

Editor(s) tried

SublimeText

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Research direction
Inspect the TinyMCE example page to understand its DOM structure (iframe and hidden textarea). Trace the GhostText detection code to see how it currently identifies editable elements. Modify the detection to handle iframe based editors where the actual content resides in an iframe's body, and also consider the hidden textarea approach.
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javascript
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