CKEditor instance in a jQuery dialog

Question

I am using jQuery to open a dialog window with a textarea transformed into an instance of CKEditor. I'm using the jQuery adapter provided by the CKEditor team but when the dialog window opens up I cannot interact with the editor (it's created but "null" is written in the content space and I can't click on anything or modify the content).

This bug report seems to say that by using a patch provided the issue is fixed but it doesn't seem to be working for me...

Here's my code (maybe I did something wrong programmatically):

HTML:

<div id="ad_div" title="Analyse documentaire">
<textarea id="ad_content" name="ad_content"></textarea>
</div>

My includes (Everything is included correctly but maybe it's an including order issue?):

<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/jquery/css/custom-theme/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/jquery/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/jquery/js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/jquery/plugins/dialog-patch.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="includes/ckeditor/adapters/jquery.js"></script>

Javascript:

$('#ad_content').ckeditor();

/* snip */

$('#ad_div').dialog(
{
    modal: true,
    resizable: false,
    draggable: false,
    position: ['center','center'],
    width: 600,
    height: 500,
    hide: 'slide',
    show: 'slide',
    closeOnEscape: true,
    autoOpen: false
});

$('.analyse_cell').click(function(){
    $('#ad_div').dialog('open');
});

Edit: After some further testing I noticed that pressing on the toolbar buttons gave me this error:

Error: this.document.getWindow().$ is undefined Source File: includes/ckeditor/ckeditor.js Line: 82

Answer 1

I used a callback function with the "show:" option to delay instantiating CKEditor until after the "show" animation was complete. I found that as little as 50 milliseconds will do the trick.

modal: true,
show: {
    effect: "drop",
    complete: function() {
        setTimeout(function(){
            $( "#selector" ).ckeditor();
        },50);
    }
},
hide: "drop",

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

$('.analyse_cell').click(function(){
    $('#ad_div').dialog({
        modal: true,
        resizable: false,
        draggable: false,
        position: ['center','center'],
        width: 600,
        height: 500,
        hide: 'slide',
        show: 'slide',
        closeOnEscape: true,
        autoOpen: false,
        open: function(event,ui) {
            $('#ad_content').ckeditor();
        },
        close: function(event,ui) {
            CKEDITOR.remove($("#ad_content").ckeditorGet());
        }
    });
});

Answer 3

Use the latest version of CKEditor. Solved it for me. Version 3.4.2

Answer 4

Simply add this snippet to your doc and the problem is solved!

$(document).on('focusin', function(e) {
     e.stopImmediatePropagation();
});