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Setting default text via Javascript

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Tom.S asked on 11 Dec 2008, 02:43 AM

Hi,
I'm looking to add some text/html to a rad editor on page load.

The Rad Editor is being used on a NewForm.aspx page as a replacement for the default rich text editor. As the control is being added dynamically, i can't obtain a reference using the control name:

    
            var editor = $find("<%=RadEditor1.ClientID%>");

So my approach is to traverse over the DOM and find the ID of the RAD editor control. I can do this successfully using the below javascript:

    
            <script type="text/javascript">  
        
            _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("fillDefaultValues");  
        
            function fillDefaultValues() {  
        
             var oJobBrief = getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle("textarea", "TextField", "Job Brief");  
        
             var temp1 = oJobBrief.parentNode.previousSibling;   
        
             var oRadEditor = $find(temp1.id);  
        
             oRadEditor._contentArea.innerHTML = "test";  
        
            }  
        
                function getTagFromIdentifierAndTitle(tagName, identifier, title) {  
        
                  var len = identifier.length;  
        
                  var tags = document.getElementsByTagName(tagName);  
        
                  for (var i=0; i < tags.length; i++) {  
        
                    var tempString = tags[i].id;  
        
                    if (tags[i].title == title && (identifier == "" || tempString.indexOf(identifier) == tempString.length - len)) {  
        
                      return tags[i];  
        
                    }  
        
                  }  
        
                  return null;  
        
                }  
        
            </script>

Using the $find function on Firefox returns a reference to the Rad editor instance. However I get nothing back when doing this from IE.

Can you help? Is there an easier way to set text in the rad editor for a specific page?

Setting default text via Javascript

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