[Solved] RadEditor Within DetailsView

[Mark Fischer]

Hi,
I am having a problem using a RadEditor control with a detailsview. I created a TemplateField with the following:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="PageContent" SortExpression="PageContent">
                    <EditItemTemplate>
                        <telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEContent" runat="server" ToolsFile="~/ToolsFile.xml" EditModes="All" Height="459px"
                                Skin="Vista" StripFormattingOnPaste="None" StripFormattingOptions="None" ToolbarMode="Default"
                                Width="100%" Text='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'>
                                <SpellCheckSettings SpellCheckProvider="PhoneticProvider" WordIgnoreOptions="None" />
                            </telerik:RadEditor>
                    </EditItemTemplate>
                    <InsertItemTemplate>
                         <telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEContent" runat="server" ToolsFile="~/ToolsFile.xml" EditModes="All" Height="459px"
                                Skin="Vista" StripFormattingOnPaste="None" StripFormattingOptions="None" ToolbarMode="Default"
                                Width="100%" Text='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'>
                                <Content></Content>
                                <SpellCheckSettings SpellCheckProvider="PhoneticProvider" WordIgnoreOptions="None" />
                            </telerik:RadEditor>
                    </InsertItemTemplate>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'></asp:Label>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>

The Insert Item part works fine, however when I try to switch the detailsview control to edit mode, I get the following error: 

Please, use the Content property of RadEditor to set its content.
The value of the Text property is generated using the value of the Content property.

If I attempt to bind between the <content></content> elements, this also gives me an error.

[Rumen]

Hi Mark Fischer,

Please replace the Text property:

Text='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'

with Content, e.g.

Content='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'

Here is the whole declaration:

<asp:TemplateField HeaderText="PageContent" SortExpression="PageContent">
                    <EditItemTemplate>
                        <telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEContent" runat="server" ToolsFile="~/ToolsFile.xml" EditModes="All" Height="459px"
                                Skin="Vista" StripFormattingOnPaste="None" StripFormattingOptions="None" ToolbarMode="Default"
                                Width="100%" Content='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'>
                                <SpellCheckSettings SpellCheckProvider="PhoneticProvider" WordIgnoreOptions="None" />
                            </telerik:RadEditor>
                    </EditItemTemplate>
                    <InsertItemTemplate>
                         <telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEContent" runat="server" ToolsFile="~/ToolsFile.xml" EditModes="All" Height="459px"
                                Skin="Vista" StripFormattingOnPaste="None" StripFormattingOptions="None" ToolbarMode="Default"
                                Width="100%" Content='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'>
                                <Content></Content>
                                <SpellCheckSettings SpellCheckProvider="PhoneticProvider" WordIgnoreOptions="None" />
                            </telerik:RadEditor>
                    </InsertItemTemplate>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <asp:Label ID="Label2" runat="server" Text='<%# Bind("PageContent") %>'></asp:Label>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>

Let me know if you still experience any problems.

Best regards,
Rumen
the Telerik team

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[Jimmie Houts]

In the latest version of the RadEditor, the Content property does not appear in the intellisense list as a valid property, although it works fine.

However, as Mark Fischer pointed out above, the Content property does still show up as a nested node. The only problem is that it generates a compiler error if you try to add content between the tags.

The following example generates a compiler error:

<telerik:RadEditor ID="RadEditor1" runat="server">
     <Content><%# Bind("Text") %></Content>
</telerik:RadEditor>

It seems to me that either the Content property needs to be listed in the Intellisense, or the nested content tag needs to actually work, or both.