Load HTML from database to editor (PHP)

[Robin]

I'm using the Kendo UI Web Editor to allow the user to add formatted content.

I then save this content to a MySQL database.

What is the correct way to load such content to the editor again to allow for further editing?

I tried

editor.value("<?=$html;?>");

and

editor.paste("<?=$html;?>");

Where $html is the string with the HTML from the MySQL-database. However this causes the editor to be blank (no content) and for the editor widget to not initialize (it is only shown as a blank textarea).

[Petur Subev]

Hello Robin,

Basically you should be able to paste html into the editor. I suspect that there are errors in the console, since you mentioned the Editor is not initialized at all, could you check that?

Take a look at this jsbin and compare to your code:

http://jsbin.com/igunuz/2/edit

Regards,
Petur Subev
the Telerik team

[Robin]

I gave it another try now, and the error in the console is 

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL

I'm not able to figure out which token causes this.

In the console it looks like this token is between "ansatte" and "til å mosjonere" (first and second line), but all I can see there is a linebreak. 

Is there something I should to serverside to prepare the HTML for injection to the editor?

For this example, the HTML/JS looks like this:

var editor = $("#editor").data("kendoEditor");

        editor.value("<p><span class=\"ms-rteCustom-Text\">Målet med dette er å motivere de ansatte

til å mosjonere, delta på arrangementer, samt å profilere

XXXX.</span></p><p><span class=\"ms-rteCustom-Text\"><strong>Generelt:</strong></span></p><ul type=\"disc\"><li><span class=\"ms-rteCustom-Text\">Info here

</span>

</li></ul><p>Har du spørsmål til ordningen kontakt [e-mail]</p>");

[Robin]

In case anyone else struggles with this: the source of the error was actually the linebreak.

So serverside, doing a str_replace on \r and \n was all I needed to do to make it work in the editor again.