The Telerik Blazor Telerik Editor Insert Hyperlink functionality is not consistent with other Telerik Editor components and non Telerik Editors. Usually when dealing with Editors and the Insert Hyperlink feature, you can insert a hyperlink without need to select and convert existing text. You can also usually use the ctrl+k keyboard shortcut instead of clicking on the button. This does not work in the Telerik Blazor Editor.

The differences and lack of functionality has been raised as an issue by end users.

Expected Behaviour

1. Ensure no text is selected. The Insert Hyperlink button should be enabled.
2. Click the Insert Hyperlink button or press ctrl+k.
3. Enter values for web address, text, tooltip and "open link in new window".
4. Click insert. An anchor tag with the given text, link, etc. is created.

This can be reproduced on any of the Kendo UI for jQuery demo pages. It can also be reproduced within the editor on this very form.

Actual Behaviour

1. Ensure no text is selected. The Insert Hyperlink button is not enabled and cannot be clicked.
2. You must select existing text to be able to convert it to a hyperlink.

This can be reproduced on any of the demo pages that has the hyperlink button.

I am using the LinkCommandArgs to programmatically create a link. I am adding all the required parameters (string href, string text, string target, string title) but no link is added to the Editor content.

Reproduction: https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/QyOTwCuU48HSG5xp41.

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ADMIN EDIT

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For the time being, you may add a link using the HtmlCommandArgs tool and the "insertHtml" command like so: https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/GyuTmMkt56f3YiM754.

When adding an icon such as <i class="fa-light fa-envelope"></i> (the format which FontAwesome recommends), the icon's HTML disappears upon saving. We figured this was maybe due to the type of tag used (the i tag), so we tried using a div instead (<div class="fa-light fa-envelope"></div>). This div is not stripped from the HTML but the icon is not rendered.

Please allow inserting icons in the Editor content.

It would be nice to have an ability to group CustomTool / icons much like we can do EditorButtonGroup(s) - e.g.

new CustomToolGroup (new CustomTool("Save"),  new CustomTool("Import"), new CustomTool("Export"))

The Editor currently supports only numeric ordered list. I'm looking for an option to add different types of ordered lists - roman and alphabetical.

Please add support for these types of ordered lists similiar to the KendoReact Editor.

The Editor is not showing its Value in the following scenario:

• Using JSInterop in OnAfterRenderAsync
• Setting the Editor Value in OnAfterRenderAsync and after the JSInterop call
• Blazor Server app (seems to work in WebAssembly)

Possible workarounds are:

• Set the Editor Value and call StateHasChanged() before using JSInterop in OnAfterRenderAsync, or
• Add some small delay (for example, await Task.Delay(100); ) before using JSInterop.

When I paste a table from Word or Excel in the Editor, some of the formatting is lost. The Kendo React Editor supports most of the formatting and I would like to see the same behavior for Blazor. 

I know the indent option is available.

But it would be great if it would be possible to allow tab presses in the editor control. 

Maybe the option to use @onkeydown or a parameter of AllowTabs.

The TelerikEditor demos all show bind-Value being used to marshal HTML in and out of the editor:

<TelerikEditor @bind-Value="@TheEditorValue" Width="650px" Height="400px"></TelerikEditor>

However, this causes problems - the underlying ProseMirror component emits it's own HTML (e.g. for image drag handles), which is visible in the bound Value property.

We need to be able to export "clean" HTML from the viewer, otherwise we end up saving this superflous HTML as part of our document.

Code

This REPL shows the issue:

https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/mHODmObJ36vZ7ivR09

@page "/editor/tools"

@using Telerik.Blazor.Components.Editor 

<TelerikEditor Tools="@EditorToolSets.All"
               Height="300px"
               @bind-Value="@Value"
               EditMode="EditorEditMode.Div"
               ></TelerikEditor>

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap;">@Value</pre>

@code {
    public string Value { get; set; } =
        "<img src=\"img/toolbar-assets/repl-logo.svg\" />";
}

Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the REPL and click "Run" - observe that the bound HTML is simply

<img src="img/toolbar-assets/repl-logo.svg" />

2. Click on the Telerik logo image inside the editor - observe that the bound HTML is now

<p><img src="img/toolbar-assets/repl-logo.svg" contenteditable="false" draggable="true" class="ProseMirror-selectednode"><div class="k-editor-resize-handles-wrapper ProseMirror-widget" style="width: 857px; height: 78px; top: 8px; left: 8px;" contenteditable="false"><div class="k-editor-resize-handle southeast" data-dir-image-resize="southeast"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle east" data-dir-image-resize="east"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle south" data-dir-image-resize="south"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle north" data-dir-image-resize="north"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle west" data-dir-image-resize="west"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle southwest" data-dir-image-resize="southwest"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle northwest" data-dir-image-resize="northwest"></div><div class="k-editor-resize-handle northeast" data-dir-image-resize="northeast"></div></div><br class="ProseMirror-trailingBreak"></p>

3. Deselect the image - observe that the bound HTML no longer contains the image handles etc, but is still more verbose than when we started

<p><img src="img/toolbar-assets/repl-logo.svg" contenteditable="false" draggable="true" class=""><br class="ProseMirror-trailingBreak"></p>

4. At any point during the above steps, click the "View HTML" button in the Editor toolbar - observe that it is able to present a "clean" structure which contains no ProseMirror markup etc.

Requirements

How do we access this HTML via the TelerikEditor Blazor APIs?

Hello,

after selecting a block of text in your editor and perform some block operation (for instance - change font size, name, ..) the original selection is lost. Would it be possible to keep that selection please?

Very thanks.

Miroslav

I would like to use the Editor in a more compact matter in my application. The buttons and button groups must be small, and the margins and the paddings must be smaller as well. 

The overall goal is to make the Editor take less amount of space in the UI. 

Description : 
When you click before the content in the Editor, the cursor should show up before the text. But, if a text was added programmatically, the cursor shows up after the added text instead.

To reproduce the problem :

1. Open this REPL example: https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/cdYpPabd37jvK9jt23

2. Click the "Insert Inline Text" button.

3. Try to place the cursor in front of the editor content.

We have a survey page that has multiple editor fields in it.  They need to accept rich text from a paste or other keyboard commands, but we do not want to waste the vertical space for the toolbar appearing in each editor field.

Please update the editor to hide the toolbar if the List<IEditorTool> collection is empty.

This change would make it much easier and less fragile than removing the toolbar to through Css.

I have the following command

await _editorRef.ExecuteAsync(new HtmlCommandArgs("insertHtml", "<hr class='donotremove' />", false));

Currently, the <hr/> element is added but its class is stripped. This is not the case with other elements. 

Reproduction: https://blazorrepl.telerik.com/GRYyGUbH492QNMki44.

Please allow adding class to <hr/> elements, too.

Currently, our Editor component does not support a placeholder parameter. Having a placeholder parameter, similar to the Kendo UI Editor, would prove to be beneficial.