initialValue for existing record

[minhhuynguyen91]

Hi, I am making a edit page to edit the record using html form.

Right now, I am setting the initialValue: `article.content` . It works fine if my article.content does not have the symbol `, but when it does, it crashes the editor.

I am not very good at js, I have looked some questions on SO, but I have no luck so far.

Can you provide me solution for that?

Thanks.

[Ionaru]

I am not sure what your problem is exactly, can you post your code here and the error that the browser is giving you?

For example:

content = 'This is `a` string with `backticks`';
new EasyMDE({
    initialValue: content,
});

[minhhuynguyen91]

Hi @lonaru

content = 'This is a blocked string from the mongo database after finishing updating it
with so many lines

and  backticks like this ````````````````````````. I cannot control it all
'
new EasyMDE({
    initialValue: `content`,
});

with this input's case for easyMDE, it will crash the editor.

[Ionaru]

A string in JS using single quotes cannot be placed on multiple lines, this will probably give a syntax error and the lines below it aren't executed. Also if you place ` content ` as initialValue, it will just put the string "content" in the editor instead of the data in the variable.

[minhhuynguyen91]

hi @lonaru

Sorry for my lack of understanding. My current input is something like this

var content = 'Hello\r\n\r\n> Testing testing\r\n> hello\r\n\r\n* one two three\r\n\r\n                                 - -Hello- '

new EasyMde({
  initialValue: "content"
});

and the initialValue will have this actual content like this.

initialValue: "Hello

> Testing testing
> hello

* one two three

                                 - Hello -"

As you said it would produce an error.

And I thought about using the blocked string in javascript, which leads to this SO page: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/805107/creating-multiline-strings-in-javascript

so that's why I set

initialValue: `content`

it work fines if I don't have any backticks in my content data. But it's not very desirable, can you help me to provide any other solutions? I will be very appreciated

Many thanks.

[Ionaru]

Try this:

var content = `Hello

> Testing testing
> hello

* one two three

                                 - Hello -`;

new EasyMDE({
  initialValue: content
});

Note the backticks are around the content variable and not at initialValue.

[minhhuynguyen91]

Thanks, it worked.