execCommand Trouble

[Nicodemas]

(Let's get this out of the way -- I am not a JavaScript expert.)

I am toying with a rich text editor of my own. It's just for experimentation .

I have a DIV with contentEditable =true.

I tried writing a script like the following:

var contentEditZone = document.getElementById('rte') // the DIV with contentEditable=true
contentEditZone.execCommand("InsertImage", true);

However, I get the "object does not support this property or method" error in I.E.

If I read the documentation correctly, this should work. Is it an I.E. bug I am not aware of?

[phvfl]

Have you tried passing the path to the image as the third arguement? I have also read that calling focus on the editable control resolves some issues on IE8. For example

  var contentEditZone = document.getElementById('rte'); // the DIV with contentEditable=true
 contentEditZone.focus();
 contentEditZone.execCommand("InsertImage", true, imagePath);