WYSIWIG Editor Not Working with Update Panels (AJAX) in .NET

Question

We're testing WYSIWYG editors, and we cannot see to make them work with asynchronous postbacks. We put the TextBox(/textarea) in the UpdatePanel and call a simple save to the DB, and all of our WYSIWYG toolbars disappear, leaving us with a bunch of HTML in textboxes.

This is the one we've been working to implement: nicedit.com/ We have found that CuteEditor works with asynch. postbacks, but we've had so many problems with it, we're scrapping it entirely.

Those are just two examples, but we've tried a number of others, including TinyMCE. What is causing this to mess up on the AJAX call?

Edit - I agree with Thomas that it has something to do with the WYSIWYG editor running javascript during the "onLoad" event. Unfortunately the UpdatePanel request kills that and doesn't re-render the WYSIWYG editors. So other people can experiment, here's another SO question that hooks into the client-side PageLoad event.

Edit 2 - Ultimately I ended up binding the WYSIWYG load/render event to the element's onfocus event using jQuery.

Answer 1

This is mostly (independent upon your WYSIWYG control) due to two problems. Either the WYSIWG editor runs JS on the "onLoad" event (which you cannot fix easily) or your WYSIWYG editor includes JavaScript upon becoming Visible (which won't be rendered back to client in an Ajax Request without taking special actions)

Answer 2

See if this helps http://nicedit.pbwiki.com/Saving+via+AJAX

Answer 3

From what I remember from TinyMCE, you need to turn off the editor before your POST.

I've also had success with InnovaStudio, but you have to pay for it ($59.99).

I'm waiting for WysiHat myself.