Adding placeholder text to the editor?

[lfzawacki]

Going by the documentation and a quick search through the code it doesn't seem to be possible to add a placeholder text to the editor. Is the the feature really not present? How hard would it be to add it?

By the way, the official http://epiceditor.com seems to be down.

Thanks

[massar]

If by 'placeholder' you mean a 'default text', the trick I use is to have:

<textarea id="epiceditor">
# Placeholder

A placeholder
</textarea>

Then when your javascript loads, you find the 'epiceditor' node in the DOM and replace it with the EpicEditor, using the content of the textarea as the starting point ('textarea' argument in the options)

That way you get a nice fallback to HTML for those who properly disable Javascript till they see why they should enable it and that it is for a real reason not just to load ads and other malware.

Of course, you could also use your epiceditor loader script to async load some content and set that as the body.

By the way, the official http://epiceditor.com seems to be down.

Apparently the A address of epiceditor.com points to a old cluster of Fastly; hence, @OscarGodson will have to update DNS for that to be resolved. (bad thing about CDNs and not using their DNS: can't "CNAME" the root to their cluster).

[lfzawacki]

Ok, thanks. I was actually thinking of something more like the placeholder attribute in the textarea tag which displays text with different styling and is not 'actually' there (it will disappear when the user focuses and/or starts typing text).

Anyway, I might make it work loading the text there, but the issue is about the input tag placeholder behavior.

[massar]

Placeholders do not make total sense for an editor like EpicEditor IMHO.

But If you want the behaviour of a placeholder: when the editor is activated, remove the initial text and let people type.

[lfzawacki]

Yeah, I'll get it to work this way. You can probably close this issue now. Thanks again.