API: GetXHTML() temporarily distorts rendering

[Brian Klug]

Steps to reproduce:

1. Load demo page with Firefox
2. Choose "Sample 8: Editor API usage" from the drop down
3. Focus before "You are using" and hit enter 5 times
4. Click "Get Editor Contents (XHTML)"

The call returns the proper XHTML, but the text in the editor jumps.

We are implementing an autosave feature which periodically calls this function to get the XHTML and send it back to the server using XMLHTTPRequest. It works perfectly except for the dancing text ;)

[Brian Klug]

For anyone else having this problem, I recommend using the following workaround:

var fck = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('content');
var xhtml = fck.EditorDocument.body.innerHTML;

[Alfonso Martínez de Lizarrondo]

If you get the contents with body.innerHTML then you'll have very serious trouble when the content has any protected source element (comments, script) that will get lost, in links and anchors you'll get extra attributes, in flash, anchors and other special elements you'll get the fake image instead of the contents...

So that would be a really bad workaround as a general rule.