[Solved] Add content to Editor programmatically?

[John]

Hi all:

I have a ASP.NET page that has a Tabbed interface, 4 data grids, some images, text., etc. I'd like to get all of this content into the RadEditor at Run time...is this possible? I have been able to get string content into the Editor, but is it possible to build a table from a RadGrid and then add that table to the Editor? Is it possible to add and format headers, images, etc?

Thanks for any and all input.

John.

[Schlurk]

To set the content programmatically I believe you have to basically define a string for the content which has the HTML representation of what you are attempting to add, like in the following documentation article. There's no way to say "RadEditor1.Content.Add(image)" for example, and the content is handled through the getting and setting of content which is all string-based.

[John]

Hi:

Thanks for your reply and yes, that did work for adding the content from the grid. However for some reason when I added the content programatically the ExportToPDF functionality failed. If I type something below the data I added programatically, the typed content gets exported to teh PDF, but none of the otehr content does. Strange.

John.

[Rumen]

Hi John,

Please, see the following forum thread which demonstrates how to export table elements to PDF documents: Export to PDF/DOC.

The third party HTMLtoPDF converter that RadEditor uses does not offer support for external css files and it does not render the classes specified in the class attributes of the HTML elements. This means that you will be able to apply table borders only with inline styles. You can do that in the custom content filter by adding this line in it:

table.style.border = "1px solid red";

To apply borders to the internal cells you should loop through the table cells and apply border to them.     
The line below demonstrates how to apply a border to the first cell in the table:

table.rows[0].cells[0].style.border = "1px solid red";

2) To export fonts you follow this rule - the first letter of the font name should start with uppercase letter:

Dim outstr As String = RadEditor1.Content

'Telerik: The first letter of all font names should be uppercase
outstr = outstr.Replace("arial", "Arial")
outstr = outstr.Replace("tahoma", "Tahoma")
outstr = outstr.Replace("garamond", "Garamond")
outstr = outstr.Replace("verdana", "Verdana")
outstr = outstr.Replace("georgia", "Georgia")
outstr = outstr.Replace("courier new", "Courier New")

The improvement of the Export To PDF tool is on our ToDo list for Q1 2010.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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