I've submitted a bug to the tinyMCE people, but i'm hoping someone else has come across this and has a suitable workaround.
Here's the situation:
I've got a form with a tinyMCE control that i load into a jquery dialog. it works great the first time, then after they close it, and open a new one. any interaction with the tinyMCE control gives:
"Node cannot be used in a document other than the one in which it was created"
it also doesn't fill the control with the text it's supposed to be prepopulated with.
In my jquery dialogs i have the following scripts in my beforeClose handler:
if (typeof tinyMCE != 'undefined') {
$(this).find(':tinymce').each(function () {
var theMce = $(this);
tinyMCE.execCommand('mceFocus', false, theMce.attr('id'));
tinyMCE.execCommand('mceRemoveControl', false, theMce.attr('id'));
$(this).remove();
});
}
and here's my tinyMCE setup script:
$('#' + controlId).tinymce({
script_url: v2ScriptPaths.TinyMCEPath,
mode: "none",
elements: controlId,
theme: "advanced",
plugins: "paste",
paste_retain_style_properties: "*",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top",
theme_advanced_buttons1: "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, justifyfull, indent, outdent, separator, undo, redo, separator, numlist, bullist, hr, link, unlink,removeformat",
theme_advanced_buttons2: "fontsizeselect, forecolor, backcolor, charmap, pastetext,pasteword,selectall, sub, sup",
theme_advanced_buttons3: "",
language: v2LocalizedSettings.languageCode,
gecko_spellcheck : true,
onchange_callback: function (editor) {
tinyMCE.triggerSave();
},
setup: function (editor) {
editor.onInit.add(function (editor, event) {
if (typeof v2SetInitialContent == 'function') {
v2SetInitialContent();
}
})
}
});
is there anything obvious here? i've got all that complicated removal stuff in the close b/c tinymce doesn't like having it's html removed without it being removed.
the setInitialContent() stuff is just so i can pre-load it with their email signature if they have one. it's broken with or without that code so that's not the problem.
i was forced to update to 3.4.9 because of this issue:
http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=28400
so if someone can solve that, it would help this situation to. I have tried the suggestion from aknosis with no luck.
EDIT: I originally thought this only affected firefox
11, but i have downloaded 10, and it is also affected.
EDIT: Ok, i've trimmed down all my convoluted dynamic forms and links that cause this into a fairly simple example.
the code for the base page:
<a href="<%=Url.Action(MVC.Temp.GetRTEDialogContent)%>" id="TestSendEmailDialog">Get Dialog</a>
<div id="TestDialog"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$('#TestSendEmailDialog').click(function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
var theDialog = buildADialog('Test', 500, 800, 'TestDialog');
theDialog.dialog('open');
theDialog.empty().load($(this).attr('href'), function () {
});
});
function buildADialog(title, height, width, dialogId, maxHeight) {
var customDialog = $('#' + dialogId);
customDialog.dialog('destory');
customDialog.dialog({
title: title,
autoOpen: false,
height: height,
modal: true,
width: width,
close: function (ev, ui) {
$(this).dialog("destroy");
$(this).empty();
},
beforeClose: function (event, ui) {
if (typeof tinyMCE != 'undefined') {
$(this).find(':tinymce').each(function () {
var theMce = $(this);
tinyMCE.execCommand('mceFocus', false, theMce.attr('id'));
tinyMCE.execCommand('mceRemoveControl', false, theMce.attr('id'));
$(this).remove();
});
}
}
});
return customDialog;
}
</script>
and the code for the page that is loaded into the dialog:
<form id="SendAnEmailForm" name="SendAnEmailForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post">
<textarea cols="50" id="MessageBody" name="MessageBody" rows="10" style="width: 710px; height:200px;"></textarea>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('#MessageBody').tinymce({
script_url: v2ScriptPaths.TinyMCEPath,
mode: "exact",
elements: 'MessageBody',
theme: "advanced",
plugins: "paste, preview",
paste_retain_style_properties: "*",
theme_advanced_toolbar_location: "top",
theme_advanced_buttons1: "bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, separator, justifyleft, justifycenter, justifyright, justifyfull, indent, outdent, separator, undo, redo, separator, numlist, bullist, hr, link, unlink,removeformat",
theme_advanced_buttons2: "fontsizeselect, forecolor, backcolor, charmap, pastetext,pasteword,selectall, sub, sup, preview",
theme_advanced_buttons3: "",
language: 'EN',
gecko_spellcheck: true,
onchange_callback: function (editor) {
tinyMCE.triggerSave();
}
});
});
</script>
a very interesting thing i noticed, if i move the tinyMCE setup into the load callback, it seems to work. this isn't really a solution though, because when i'm loading dialogs, i don't know in the code ahead of time if it has tinyMCE controls or not!
