Use custom tag as placeholder in Placeholder plugin

[KeldJ]

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To access the placeholder in DOM using $("placeholder") I would like to replace the [[]] with a custom tag () i replaced the code in the plugin as below

//var placeholderReplaceRegex = /[[([^[]])+]]/g; var placeholderReplaceRegex = /<related>(.*?)<\/related>/g;

When doing that i can find the placeholder but when processing its stripped again

I made a hack

if (node.parent.name == 'related') text = '<related>' + text + "</related>";

Which makes the placeholder unselectable but its reproducing itselfs when changing code <related><related>text</related></related>

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• CKEditor version ckeditor_4.17.1
• Installed CKEditor plugins: placeholder, widget ryv

[sculpt0r]

Hi, @KeldJ

If I good understand:

• you try to customize placeholder plugin
• currently, we use span: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor4/blob/3ec1aa9190a41042a2406f64eef1a2b83228b6b3/plugins/placeholder/plugin.js#L39
• you want it to be related tag instead of span
• additionally, you want to get rid of [[]] inside tags and you want to put there () instead

All above leads you to malfunction placeholder plugin? Is that correct?

Would you like to have some config option for that plugin - that allows you to set custom template? Or, you want us to help you with the implementation?

[KeldJ]

Hi again

Instead of the placeholder [[]] i would like to use tags where i can put attributes like

I made a change so i just use css to make the div un editable