Editor Causes Ajax To Get Stuck In Loop

[Michel Laforce]

Hi

the RadEditor is inside a AjaxUpdatedControl, I have the MaxTextLenght set and when it is exceeded, the message appears (the added text exceeded...), after the ajax loading panel appears but it gets stuck in an infinite loopthere. How can I stop this.

Thanks

[Rumen]

Hi Michel,

We are aware of this issue, but there is not a solution for this scenario.

Nevertheless, you can write your own validation mechanism similar to the following one:

Here is an example for multiple editors on the page:

<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server" OnClientLoad="LimitCharacters"></telerik:RadEditor>
<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor2" runat="server" OnClientLoad="LimitCharacters"></telerik:RadEditor>
<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor3" runat="server" OnClientLoad="LimitCharacters"></telerik:RadEditor>

  <script type="text/javascript">

  var editorList = new Object();
  var editorLengthArray = [20,30,40];
  var counter = 0;


  function isAlphaNumericKey(keyCode)
  {
   if ((keyCode > 47 && keyCode < 58) || (keyCode > 64 && keyCode < 91))
   {
    return true;
   }
   return false;
  }

  function LimitCharacters(editor)
  {

      editorList[editor.get_id()] = editorLengthArray[counter];
      counter++;

      editor.attachEventHandler("onkeydown", function(e)
      {
        e = (e == null)? window.event : e;
        if (isAlphaNumericKey(e.keyCode))
        {
            var maxTextLength = editorList[editor.get_id()];

            textLength = editor.get_text().length;
            if (textLength >= maxTextLength)
            {
                alert('You are not able to type more than ' + maxTextLength + ' symbols!');
                e.returnValue = false;
            }
        }
       });
  }
  </script>

Just type in the content area to see the alert message.

or this provided with the Custom Validator in the following demo: Validator Support, e.g.

<telerik:radeditor runat="server" ID="RadEditor1"></telerik:radeditor>

<asp:CustomValidator runat="server" ID="CustomValidator1" ControlToValidate="RadEditor1" ClientValidationFunction="checkLength">* The text length should not exceed 50 symbols.</asp:CustomValidator>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var limitNum = 50;

    function checkLength(sender, args)
    {
        //Note that sender is NOT the RadEditor. sender is the <span> of the validator.
        //The content is contained in the args.Value variable
        var editorText = args.Value;
        args.IsValid = editorText.length > limitNum;
    }
</script>

Best wishes,
Rumen
the Telerik team