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well - you can skip the ref stuff and just get the elementById i guess - doesn`t matter if you use an oldschool request/response cycle 😉

In reply to@_slack_wagtailcms_UANB7K25B:matrix.org
I didn't try it, but the draftail docs seems promising: https://www.draftail.org/docs/importing-and-exporting-html#demo Looks like you could write just some JSON into a hidden form field and save this Maybe you have to tweak the react code a bit:

  {
      hiddenInputRef.current.text = raw
      formRef.submit()
    }}
 

hiddenInputRef.current.text = raw with hiddenInputRef is a ref to your hiddenInputField The loading should be equivalent:

 
But you will need some basic React knowledge to implement this 

In reply to@_slack_wagtailcms_UANB7K25B:matrix.org
I didn't try it, but the draftail docs seems promising: https://www.draftail.org/docs/importing-and-exporting-html#demo Looks like you could write just some JSON into a hidden form field and save this Maybe you have to tweak the react code a bit:

  {
      hiddenInputRef.current.text = raw
      formRef.current.submit()
    }}
 

hiddenInputRef.current.text = raw with hiddenInputRef is a ref to your hiddenInputField The loading should be equivalent:

 
But you will need some basic React knowledge to implement this 

In reply to@_slack_wagtailcms_U0ME9SGR1:matrix.org
I’ve been working on this in secret over at https://github.com/thibaudcolas/django-draftail. There isn’t much to see in that repo at the moment, I’m still at the "too afraid to commit" stage considering my poor Django skills

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the TL;DR; is that it can be very straightforward, if you’re only after basic functionality, it’s more work if you want to replicate something closer to what Wagtail has

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Things that require significant effort are: - Having a server-side API to configure what formatting is enabled in the editor per-field via models, like Wagtail does - Links, images, embeds, documents. Wagtail’s implementation is specific to Wagtail. - Rich text processing

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The rich text processing itself is done with https://github.com/springload/draftjs_exporter, so most of the work there would just be to correctly hook this up to the fields’ rendering. Not a massive task but important to get right