When I enter in an large amount of text into a WebTextEditor in MultiLine mode my typing is slowed down considerably. Can anyone please tell me what the limitations are? I have tested this with an asp text box and the threshold for the ig control seems to be much lower. I was able to reproduce this on the ig sample site.
Thank you.
Hello neilfl,
I made some research on this and it seems that the behavior you have described is caused by browser limitations. Everytime a key is pressed, a number of javascript functions are being executed. These functions perform actions on the whole string, already entered. Subsequently for large amounts of text the control becomes less responsive. In such a scenario I would suggest using a regular html textarea which is not dependent on clientside functions.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Yea, I figured as much. Why in the word would they perform that much processing on every word in a multi line text field. There should be a way to disable the javascript with a property on the control. Do you know of any way to stop the javascript from executing?
Thanks for your assistance.
Neil
Hi Neil,
If you have any other questions please feel free to contact me.
The javascript code used and the string processing which is done in WebTextEditor is required for the features of the control to function. Please let me know if you have any questions.