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How do I post contents of a Quill editor in a form?

I have what I think is a very common scenario. I would normally have this form:

<form method="post">

<textarea name="text"></textarea>
<input type="submit" value="Save" />

</form>

Then with PHP I would capture the data from the form ($_POST['text']) and I could use that in another variable.

Now, I'd like to use Quill so users have a nice rich text editor instead. Quill seems very well suited for this and the documentation is very detailed. However, for some reason I can not find how I can "post" the data to the form. There is one single sample page that sort of does what I want, but I am unable to fully implement this in my sample, and in the quick start guide this rather fundamental (to me) topic is not discussed, and I can not find this in the documentation either.

Is Quill supposed to be used like this? Am I overseeing something? Is there a recommended way to make this work?

This is what I currently have:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<link href="https://cdn.quilljs.com/1.0.0/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
<form method="post">


<!-- Create the toolbar container -->
<div id="toolbar">
  <button class="ql-bold">Bold</button>
  <button class="ql-italic">Italic</button>
</div>


<form method="post">

<!-- Create the editor container -->
<div id="editor">
  <p>Hello World!</p>
</div>

<input type="submit" value="Save" />

</form>

<!-- Include the Quill library -->
<script src="https://cdn.quilljs.com/1.0.0/quill.js"></script>

<!-- Initialize Quill editor -->
<script>
  var editor = new Quill('#editor', {
    modules: { toolbar: '#toolbar' },
    theme: 'snow'
  });
</script>
</body>
</html>
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user32421 Avatar asked Jun 09 '17 21:06

user32421


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1 Answers

<form method="post" id="identifier">

  <div id="quillArea"></div>

  <textarea name="text" style="display:none" id="hiddenArea"></textarea>
  <input type="submit" value="Save" />

</form>

If you give the form an identifier, then using jQuery you can do the following:

var quill = new Quill ({...}) //definition of the quill

$("#identifier").on("submit",function() {
  $("#hiddenArea").val($("#quillArea").html());
})

Instead of the HTML you could use quill.getContents() to get the delta.

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GazEdBro Avatar answered Nov 10 '22 04:11

GazEdBro