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Save plugin

Adds a save button to the TinyMCE toolbar.

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This plugin adds a save button to the TinyMCE toolbar, which will submit the form that the editor is within.

Basic setup

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: 'save',
  toolbar: 'save'
});

Save error messages

The "Error: Form submit field collision." error message will appear if you call the submit button of your form “submit”, which causes a collision with the JS form submit function and makes it impossible to submit the form using code. This can easily be avoided by naming the submit button "submitbtn" or similar.

So replace this:

<form><button name="submit"></button></form>

With this:

<form><button name="submitbtn"></button></form>

Options

These settings affect the execution of the save plugin. Callbacks that will execute after saving the content or canceling saving the content are included in this section. In addition, a setting that will disable the save button when no modifications have been made to the content is available here.

save_enablewhendirty

This option allows you to disable the save button until modifications have been made to the content of the editor. This option is enabled by default.

Type: Boolean

Example: Using save_enablewhendirty

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: 'save',
  toolbar: 'save',
  save_enablewhendirty: true
});

save_oncancelcallback

This option allows you to specify the function that will be executed when the cancel button/command is invoked.

Type: String

Example: Using save_oncancelcallback

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: 'save',
  toolbar: 'save',
  save_oncancelcallback: function () { console.log('Save canceled'); }
});

save_onsavecallback

This option allows you to specify the function that will be executed when the save button/command is invoked.

Type: String

Example: Using save_onsavecallback

tinymce.init({
  selector: 'textarea',  // change this value according to your HTML
  plugins: 'save',
  toolbar: 'save',
  save_onsavecallback: function () { console.log('Saved'); }
});

Toolbar buttons

The Save plugin provides the following toolbar buttons:

Toolbar button identifier Description
cancel Cancels/Resets the editor contents to it’s initial state.
save Saves the current editor contents to a form or ajax call.

These toolbar buttons can be added to the editor using:

Commands

The Save plugin provides the following JavaScript commands.

Command Description
mceCancel Resets the editor content to the last save point created with mceSave, the save toolbar button, or the Save menu item. This command will reset the editor content to the initial state if no save points exist.
mceSave Saves the current editor contents.

Examples

tinymce.activeEditor.execCommand('mceCancel');
tinymce.activeEditor.execCommand('mceSave');

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