HTMLArea problem

balltongu · Post by **balltongu** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:40 am

Hi all,

I just found this little gem of a product last night as I was looking for something to create a customer knowledgebase with. I also noticed it had HTMLArea included with it, which I was looking forward to using. The problem is, it isn't working.

Here's what I can tell you. When I click on Create Entry, HTMLArea's interface comes up, but none of the buttons actually work. When looking at the JS Console, I see these two things:

Error: this.doc has no properties
Source File: http://localhost/phpmyfaq/admin/editor/htmlarea.js
Line: 1782

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Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.designMode]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: http://localhost/phpmyfaq/admin/editor/htmlarea.js :: initIframe :: line 742" data: no]

When I actually click on one of the buttons, this shows up in the JS Console:

Error: this._doc has no properties
Source File: http://localhost/phpmyfaq/admin/editor/htmlarea.js
Line: 1901

I'll save everyone the trouble of searching through their htmlarea.js files:

Line 1782 and area:

// retrieve the HTML
HTMLArea.prototype.getHTML = function() {
switch (this._editMode) {
case "wysiwyg" :
if (!this.config.fullPage) {
return HTMLArea.getHTML(this._doc.body, false, this);
} else
return this.doctype + "\n" + HTMLArea.getHTML(this._doc.documentElement, true, this);
case "textmode" : return this._textArea.value;
default : alert("Mode <" + mode + "> not defined!");
}
return false;
};

Line 742 and area:
}
if (HTMLArea.is_gecko) {
// enable editable mode for Mozilla
doc.designMode = "on";
}
editor._doc = doc;
if (!editor.config.fullPage) {
doc.open();
var html = "<html>\n";
html += "<head>\n";
if (editor.config.baseURL)
html += '<base href="' + editor.config.baseURL + '" />';
html += "<style>" + editor.config.pageStyle +
" html,body { border: 0px; }</style>\n";
html += "</head>\n";
html += "<body>\n";
html += editor._textArea.value;
html += "</body>\n";
html += "</html>";
doc.write(html);
doc.close();
}

1901 and surrounding area:

// returns a range for the current selection
HTMLArea.prototype._createRange = function(sel) {
if (HTMLArea.is_ie) {
return sel.createRange();
} else {
this.focusEditor();
if (typeof sel != "undefined") {
try {
return sel.getRangeAt(0);
} catch(e) {
return this._doc.createRange();
}
} else {
return this._doc.createRange();
}
}
};

I really hope someone can shed some light on this for me, as I'm really wanting to get working on the actual documentation for this.

Thanx,

Iann

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:19 pm

Hi,

which browser do you use? I cannot reproduce your bug on Firefox 0.9.3

bye
Thorsten

balltongu · Post by **balltongu** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:13 pm

The above scenario was produced with Firefox 0.9.3 or 0.9.2 (not sure, not at that computer right now) under Mandrake 10. Using Internet Explorer 6.0 either from Windows or using Crossover Office in Mandrake 10 I just get lines in place of where the buttons should be.

Iann

Post by **Thorsten** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:37 pm

What version off phpMyFAQ do you use?

bye
Thorsten

balltongu · Post by **balltongu** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:53 pm

It's version 1.4.1. I just noticed the update file available, so I will try that and get back to you.

Iann

balltongu · Post by **balltongu** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:51 am

Well.... I came to work, fired up this machine, and lo and behold, it started working. No idea what that was all about, but thanx for the help anyway.

Iann