CKEditor and ASP.Net MVC 3 RequiredAttribute

Question

I\'ve integrated CKEditor 3 (formerly FCKEditor) into my asp.net MVC (v3 to be specific) application. I have a RequiredAttribute in my model for the field that needs the edi

Answer 1

Thanks for the answers. Thanks to this post I've found my own solution which suits my case perfectly.

If you don't want to use click/mousedown event, but instead, want to trigger the validation on the right form-submit event you can use the following approach.

It doesn't use neither jQuery-Adapter CKEditor plugin nor click event. And it's possible to apply it to all forms with ckeditor.

$('form').on('submit.ckeditorValidation', function () {
    var $this = $(this);
    var $ckeditor = $this.find('textarea.ckeditor');

    // if no ckeditor for this form then do nothing
    if (!$ckeditor || !$ckeditor.length) {
        return true;
    }

    // update content from CKEditor to TextArea
    var textAreaId = $ckeditor.attr('id');
    CKEDITOR.instances[textAreaId].updateElement();

    // trigger validation and check if the form is valid
    if (!$this.valid()) {
        return false;
    }

    // if form is valid then
    // unsubscribe current event handler to avoid endless recursion
    // and re-trigger form submit
    $(this).off('submit.ckeditorValidation').submit();
    return true;
});