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castcon

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Registered: 2010-11-05

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Why does xinha use an iframe?

I'm considering integrating xinha into a project I work on and I'm curious why it uses an iframe.  Perhaps it's necessary on some level, but if not, I would have vastly preferred the text area to inherit CSS from the rest of the page.

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gogo

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Registered: 2005-02-11

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Re: Why does xinha use an iframe?

Simple reason is, that's largely how the browsers handle contentEditable/designMode, by making a document in an iframe editable.

It's not in any way like using a textarea.

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James Sleeman

ejucovy

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From: NY

Registered: 2010-11-15

Posts: 35

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Re: Why does xinha use an iframe?

@castcon, you should still be able to configure the xinha edit area to use the same styles that the rest of your page uses, using either pageStyle or pageStyleSheets:

http://xinha.raimundmeyer.de/JSdoc/Xinh … #pageStyle
http://xinha.raimundmeyer.de/JSdoc/Xinh … tyleSheets

But, as gogo says, all the major HTML/wysiwyg editors use iframes to work with the browser for html editing.