[Solved] Context Menus for custom tags

[Michael Pullella]

Hi..

I am tagging the text in my editor using xhtml as in the following:

<my:Comment      class=comment      commentValue="comment text for arrested">ARRESTED </my:Comment> MAN FOUND IN DITCH

I want to be able to show a different context menu if the user right clicks the word "Arrested" rather than the normal context menu that shows when they right click the words "MAN" or "FOUND" etc...

I began by trying to implement the example shown in this forum post
http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/aspnet-ajax/editor/changing-context-menu-programmatically-client-side.aspx

however, the editor doesn't seem to understand the Comment tag.  It worked when I followed the example and used an IMG, but I would like it to work for the custom tags that I am defining.

Is this possible?

[Dobromir]

Hi Michael,

RadEditor's content area is an editable IFRAME and is extending the browser's RichText editing engine. The custom tags are not handled by the control and are recognized differently by the browser. Internet Explorer distinct the namespace part and the tagname part while FireFox does not. As a solution to this behavior I could suggest you to define context menus for each tag, e.g.:

<telerik:RadEditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1">
    <ContextMenus>
        <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="Comment">
            <telerik:EditorTool Name="Bold" Text="Bold" />
        </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
        <telerik:EditorContextMenu TagName="MY:COMMENT">
            <telerik:EditorTool Name="Bold" Text="Bold" />
        </telerik:EditorContextMenu>
    </ContextMenus>
    <Content>
        <div>Div with some content</div>
        <my:Comment>MyCustomTag's content</my:Comment>
        <span>Span with some content</span>
    </Content>
</telerik:RadEditor>

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Dobromir
the Telerik team

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