How to add FCKEditor in MVC application?
How to show database value comes in model, in FCKEditor?
That CodeProject website isn't ideal. It asks you to do alot of unneccessary code. All you really need to do is include the correct javascript file:
Then, in the page, render the FCKEditor, given any number of different ways. I prefer to replace a text area:
window.onload = function()
{
var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor( 'content' ) ;
oFCKeditor.ReplaceTextarea() ;
}
At that point, the editor should load just fine. You will probably need to edit the fckeditor configuration files to get the standardized behavior you want. At this point, however, everything should just work. Your FCKEditor instance will behave just like another form field, and you can treat it as such when you get values from it on the server side.
It's very easy to create the server side api's for it to use as well. I created an fckeditor control, and you just need to implement GetFolders, GetFoldersAndFiles, and GetFiles. Those only take a few lines and give you nearly all the functionality you need.
I think it's easier to integrate / customize fckeditor using MVC than it is on Classic ASP.NET.
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I use angular in many projects, specially in ASP.NET MVC, but i dont like angular-
router (also ui-router, this is not much problem indeed as it's just a plugin) - concept of web-apps kills all ASP.NET features
services and factories - as all of this can be done inside common controller. (This might sound tricky)
constants and values - as i dont think this is really needed if you use requirejs or other AMD
What i love in angular is just directives, and when i make big nested directive, i use same controller foreach, so there is no $scope interacting (less watchers)
.controller('BaseGridCtrl', function(){
//instead of
//$scope.value = 123;
var ctrl = this;
//this is for Table-base-directive
ctrl.value = 123;
//this is for Table-head-directive
ctrl.value2 = 123;
});
.directive('table-base', function(){
return {
template: '<div>{{bgc.value}}</div>',
controller: 'BaseGridCtrl',
controllerAs: 'bgc'
}
});
.directive('table-head', function(){
return {
template: '<div>{{bgc.value2}}</div>',
controller: 'BaseGridCtrl',
controllerAs: 'bgc'
}
});
.directive('table-foot', function(){
return {
template: '<div>{{bgc.value3}}</div>',
controllerAs: 'bgc',
controller: function(){
var ctrl = this;
ctrl.value3 = 123;
}
}
});
So the link function is used veeery rare. And specially i like that angular easily detects directive - which is great as you just write 1 tag <grid> instead of reactjs components (This also might sound tricky). In my projects i use DotLiquid for razor views (it's stored in database as string) Sample:
<grid theme="some" route="localhost:9000/some/action"></grid>
So dotLiquid just renders this string w/o problem, or even applies other bingings beside angularjs. And this is great as all stuff is self contained. Which cannot be achieved by reactjs - you need to bootstrap components by yourself
React.renderComponent(<Grid />, document.querySelector('#someId'))
resume
Currently it's heavy, about 100kb, but without all this unnecessary stuff it would be really light. I would like to use only directive and controller services, Also with server-side rendering angular gonna bootstrap itself on each request which is not wise, but with lighter version it's a bit tradeoff.
Has anybody tried to strip angular services succesfully? Or is there any consideration, any ideas?
edit
Angular-light looks promising, but:
it doesn't provide HTML tag detection, only attributes
really ugly, alight.directives.al.getValue this looks so bad only for me or someone else?
edit2
Ok, that 100kb might not play alot. But consider it as workout, as you might know, angular start only once, at page load, so it must build the app, pull all modules, configure each, then all services of module, then inject them where they are needed, then supply callbacks from factories and services to any who injects them, at least it gonna check if any exists (on each module), all of this happens at start, only once! By wiping up size, we also can minimize javascript execution(indeed it will), factory and service watchers, so we won't need any parts that aren't used. We can even get rid of controllers (and use them inline), only 1 service. angular.directive (which is best part of party). Have looked at mustache, handlebars, but they are just like reactjs.
You can try Angular Light ~15kb (gzipped), it doesn't have services, factories, constants, values, DI, router and so on.
In addition, it has helpful features like text-directives and a support of Object.observe (benchmark)
edit
It provides HTML tag detection, attributes and comments.
AngularJS is meant for full SPA development. This means that you are not making full round trips to the server all the time. If your application needs to pass data back and forth, utilize the WEB API controllers and pass JSON up to them.
An Asset Management System I am currently working on is full SPA with WEB API and MVC fully wrapped into its needs. User log-in is processed across a full page request everything else is SPA. Additionally, here is something to read more about using MVC/WebAPI and Angular together.
If you are trying to use AngularJS instead of something like BackboneJS then you should be using AngularJS Light which was started for this exact purpose. I haven't used this library specifically, but as it is suppose to be an alternative to libraries I do use. The suggestion, if you want Angular and not BackboneJS or KnockoutJS use AngularJS Light
I am using ASP.NET MVC with Kendo UI. I want to export grid to an HTML page and print it. Online help is not available. What have your done previously. Thanks in advance.
Did you find a solution to this? I'm looking at the same thing currently and have found a couple of options:
Firstly Telerik have a Javascript example which renders your grid to a new print window, see https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/data-management/grid/print-export
Just alter the name of
var gridElement = $('#grid'),
to your own existing grid name and omit the function:
$(function () {
var grid = $('#grid').kendoGrid({
...
};
};
However, this only renders what is currently displayed on screen (so if your grid has multi pages it may not be suitable).
The second option that I'm exploring is exporting to pdf (and then user can then print that if they wish). There are example of this at
https://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/grid/pdf-export and https://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/controls/data-management/grid/pdf-export
This does have multi-page printing support (although I haven't got it to work just yet, they have examples which show it working). They do mention potential problems if you have a lot of data as it needs to load all the data on the client side (even if you have paging). There are some example projects to work on data server side in the above links.
In the end our requirements didn't need the paging but I've gone with the pdf option as that delivers quite a nice layout that you can template further.
Let's say I have 2 MVC web projects (web1 and web2) and 1 project containing shared views (common) (using the razorgenerator of David Ebbo)
web1 and web2 both have a test.cshtml file. Several blocks of code in both test.cshtml files are exactly the same.
I'm trying to find out if it's possible to share a declarative helper (#helper) between several cshtml files which are in DIFFERENT projects. So putting a cshtml file in my App_Code does not help (I would need to have 1 in each web project, which is obviously not what I want).
I know I could create a bunch of shared partial views in my 'common' project, but it seems kinda overhead to create 20 cshtml files that each contains a very small portion of html.
I know I can create a standard helper method (static string GenerateAPieceOfHtml(this HtmlHelper helper, ....)), but there I loose the ease of writing html as you can do it in a cshtml file.
For a short while I thought I bumped into an answer that would allow me to do it. But as I wrote in a comment, that code did not compile for me.
I hope my question is clear :)
[Update]
As csharpsi asks in a comment.. I did try out the code from the other post, but it did not spit out any HTML for me. Since I started to think that that answer should probably do the trick since it has 13 upvotes, I decided to give it a second try..
Again I didn't get any output, but then I tried it a little bit different.. and success!
I was trying this (which doesn't spit out any html on the page):
#{ new Test().DoSomething(Model); }
This is the version that DOES WORK:
#{
var html = new Test().DoSomething(Model);
#html
}
Other version that works:
#(new Test().DoSomething(Model))
What should I do with this question? Delete it? Write an answer myself?
Why are you trying to use razor helper for this anyway ? Razor helpers are one-particular-viewengine hack, your application shouldnt rely on them on many places (even amongst different websites). In this case, be sure to use standard MVC way - HTML helper. These you can easily share between websites, for example you can make your own class library full of them.
As the title said, I have some DOM manipulation tasks. For example, I want to:
- find all H1 element which have blue color.
- find all text which have size 12px.
- etc..
How can I do it with Rails?
Thank you.. :)
Update
I have been doing some research about extracting web page content based on this paper-> http://www.springerlink.com/index/A65708XMUR9KN9EA.pdf
The summary of the step is:
get the web url which I want to be extracted (single web page)
grab some elements from the web page based on some visual rules (Ex: grab all H1 which have blue color)
process the elements with my algorithm
save the result into my database.
-sorry for my bad english-
If what you're trying to do is manipulate HTML documents inside a rails application, you should take a look at Nokogiri.
It uses XPath to search through the document. With the following, you would find any h1 with the "blue" css class inside a document.
require 'nokogiri'
require 'open-uri'
doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.stackoverflow.com'))
doc.xpath('//h1/a[#class="blue"]').each do |link|
puts link.content
end
After, if what you were trying to do was indeed parse the current page dom, you should take a look at JavaScript and JQuery. Rails can't do that.
http://railscasts.com/episodes/190-screen-scraping-with-nokogiri
To reliably sort out what color an arbitrary element on a webpage is, you would need to reverse engineer a browser (to accurately take into account stylesheets, markup hacks, broken tags, images, etc).
A far easier approach would be to embed an existing browser such as gecko into a custom application of your making.
As your spider would browse pages, it would pass them to your embedded instance of gecko where you could use getComputedStyle to pull what color an individual element happens to be.
You originally mentioned wanting to use Ruby on Rails for this project, Rails is a framework for writing presentational applications and really a bad fit for a project like this.
As a starting point, I'd recommend you check out RubyGnome, and in particular RubyGnome's Gtk::MozEmbed functionality.
I have searched the forum, and google for this topic. Most of the articles are talking about using JSON to call the controller/action on the server and do ajax effect on the result.
I am trying to use some very basic JQuery features, like the JQuery UI/Tabs, and JQuery UI/Block for a dialog window. I cannot get these simple samples to work in my MVC project. Any ideas how I should modify these samples? I only need these basic feature now and I can go from here.
Thanks!
Actually I just got it working. The problem is that I need to modify the path to an absolute path to the view page because the relative path doesn't work with the MVC routes {controller}/{action}/{id}.
Thanks!
For info, re the relative path issue - I discussed this here (the same concept applies to any page, not just master pages). The approach I used is like so:
1: declare an extension method for adding scripts:
public static string Script(this HtmlHelper html, string path)
{
var filePath = VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute(path);
return "<script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"" + filePath + "\"></script>";
}
2: when needed (for example in the <head>...</head>) use this method:
<%=Html.Script("~/Scripts/jquery-1.2.6.js")%>
The advantage of this is that it will work even if the web app is hosted in a virtual directory (i.e. you can't use "/Scripts" because you aren't necessarily at the site root) - yet it is a lot clearer (and less messy) than the full script with munged src, i.e.
<script ... src="<%=Url.Foo(...)%>"></script>
I just implemented the jquery autocomplete textbox in one of my asp.net project. I only had to import the js file and drop some code into my aspx page. Could you be more detailled about what sample you are trying to run?
This is quick response!!
I am trying to run this "Simple Tabs" on this page:
http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs/
I think it is the same with this one: http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tabs
I just copied and pasted the whole thing into my MVC view page, with corrected path to the jquery.js and .css files, but the content in the tabs all show up together (two of them are supposed to be hidden). My understanding is that this simple jquery plugin just show and hide content.
I had the exact same problem with the jquery thickbox plugin, that the item marked as "hidden" (the dialog box) will always show up in my MVC view page.
I can understand some of the MVC+Jquery+json articles, but I don't understand why the hide/show doesn't work.
Thanks!
I just made a walkthrough on how to do this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/joecar/archive/2009/01/08/autocomplete-with-asp-net-mvc-and-jquery.aspx