Required field validator for an fckeditor
Unfortunately a requiredfieldvalidator doesn’t work with the fckeditor.
The way to do this is to use a custom validator.
Important note: you need to set validateemptytext=”true” otherwise it doesn’t fire
Then add the following javascript (note that I’m using jQuery here to reference the validator control)
<script type="text/javascript">// <![CDATA[
function ValidateContentText(source,args)
{
var controltovalidate = jQuery(source).attr("controltovalidate");
var fckControl = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance(controltovalidate);
args.IsValid = fckControl.GetXHTML(true) != "";
}
// ]]></script>
You might also want to handle the server-side validation too, even though if client-side isn’t working then the fckeditor won’t be working…
Protected Sub cvIntro_ServerValidate(ByVal source As Object, ByVal args As System.Web.UI.WebControls.ServerValidateEventArgs) Handles cvIntro.ServerValidate
Dim myContentPlaceHolder As ContentPlaceHolder
myContentPlaceHolder = CType(Master.FindControl("cphMain"), ContentPlaceHolder)
Dim fckEditorToCheck As FredCK.FCKeditorV2.FCKeditor
fckEditorToCheck = myContentPlaceHolder.FindControl(CType(source, CustomValidator).ControlToValidate)
args.IsValid = Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(fckEditorToCheck.Value)
End Sub
Update 2011
var controltovalidate = jQuery(source).attr("controltovalidate");
No longer works... just use
var controltovalidate = source.controltovalidate;
Instead - easy peasy
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