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Can the CKEditor be used in a WinForms application for (X)HTML editing?

I have adapted the code from winforms html editor to C# (see below). Is it possible to use the CKEditor instead?

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WebEditorTest
{
/// <summary>
/// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/214124/winforms-html-editor
/// </summary>
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        webBrowser1.Navigate("about:blank");
        Application.DoEvents();
        webBrowser1.Document.OpenNew(false).Write("<html><body><div id=\"editable\">Edit this text</div></body></html>");
        foreach (HtmlElement el in webBrowser1.Document.All)
        {
            el.SetAttribute("unselectable", "on");
            el.SetAttribute("contenteditable", "false");
        }
        foreach (HtmlElement el in webBrowser1.Document.All.GetElementsByName("editable"))
        {
            el.SetAttribute("width", webBrowser1.Width + "px");
            el.SetAttribute("height", "100%");
            el.SetAttribute("contenteditable", "true");
        }
        webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument.GetType().GetProperty("designMode").SetValue(webBrowser1.Document.DomDocument, "on", null);
        webBrowser1.IsWebBrowserContextMenuEnabled = false;
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        textBoxMarkup.Text = webBrowser1.DocumentText;
    }
}
}
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John Hartley Avatar asked May 13 '11 05:05

John Hartley


1 Answers

Yes. Since you are already using the WebBrowser control, there is nothing stopping you from loading an HTML page containing CKEditor and interacting with it through the DOM and InvokeScript.

UPDATE - Here's a working example of interaction:

form.cs

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        webBrowser1.Navigate("C:\\blank.htm");
        Application.DoEvents();
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        webBrowser1.Document.InvokeScript("InitEditor");
    }
}

blank.htm

<html>
    <head>
        <script src='http://ckeditor.com/apps/ckeditor/4.2/ckeditor.js?mriyyd'></script>
        <script type='text/javascript'>
            function InitEditor() { CKEDITOR.replace('editor1'); }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <textarea cols='80' id='editor1' name='editor1' rows='10'>
            <span>Lorem Ipsum</span>
        </textarea>
    </body>
</html>
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LouD Avatar answered Nov 15 '22 01:11

LouD