AngularJS & Redactor Plugin

Question

So I am working on a new site in AngularJS, and loving it!

I have encountered a problem, however. I am trying to add a jQuery plugin called 'Redactor' to my textareas, but I think what is happening is when I initialise the plugin, it replaces the textarea element. The reason this is problematic, is because I have set an 'ng-model' attribute to the text area, like so:

I am using AngularJS UI to pickup the focus event, and then execute the following code upon focus of the text

    $scope.addRedactor = function() {
        $('.redactor').redactor();
    });

Now I can't seem to get the value of the textarea, because when I try and access the ng-model 'response', it comes up as undefined.

Is there a way I can bind an ng-model attribute to the textarea AFTER it has been affected by Redactor? Else, is there another way I should be getting the textarea's value?

Answer 1

I was looking for the same answer today and made a directive to solve it:

angular.module('Module', []).directive("redactor", function() {
  return {
    require: '?ngModel',
    link: function($scope, elem, attrs, controller) {   

      controller.$render = function() {

        elem.redactor({
          keyupCallback: function() {
            $scope.$apply(controller.$setViewValue(elem.getCode()));
          },
          execCommandCallback: function() {
            $scope.$apply(controller.$setViewValue(elem.getCode()));
          }
        });

        elem.setCode(controller.$viewValue);
      };
    }
  };
});

Then you can just use the following HTML:

<textarea ng-model="yourModel" redactor></textarea>

The model will be updated on each keyUp and whenever the user clicks on a button in the toolbar. The model will contain the HTML code.

I have just started out with AngularJS so please let me know if there are better ways to do this or if I broke some conventions I am still unaware of.

Answer 2

Use this AngularJS module for "RedactorJS": https://github.com/TylerGarlick/angular-redactor

It worked fine for me.

Answer 3

For those who find the accepted answer not working as I did. This is the working one (with Angular v1.1.5)

angular.module('Module', []).directive("redactor", function() {
        return {
            require: '?ngModel',
            link: function($scope, elem, attrs, controller) {
                controller.$render = function() {
                    elem = $(elem);
                    elem.val(controller.$viewValue);
                    elem.redactor({

                        changeCallback: function() {
                            $scope.$apply(controller.$setViewValue(elem.val()));
                        }

                    });

                };
            }
        };
    });

The changeCallback is way too much better than other callbacks combined and in my case, I have to cast the elem to a Jquery element. I also found that the setCode and getCode is not available at all. May be it is a different version.