designmode problem

[5ilver5aracen]

Hi
I've created an editable html page by setting the document.designMode. I'm trying to attach an onBeforePaste event handler to the body of the document now but each time I do this the body cannot be referenced. It shows up as Null. It seems that setting designMode on the document stops you referencing the body. Does anyone know how I can get around this? My simplified code is:

alert(document.body); //=[Object]
document.designMode="On";
alert(document.body); //=null
document.body.onbeforepaste=beforePaste(); //this fails

Many thanks in advance

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

It works fine for me. Several questions spring to mind:

1. Are you waiting for the onload event to fire? If not, you should be.

2. Do you have a DOCTYPE? I tested with a complete and valid XHTML 1.1 DOCTYPE, and found no problems at all.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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[tsuji]

>[tt]document.body.onbeforepaste=beforePaste[highlight]()[/highlight]; //this fails[/tt]

Hopefully this would not fail.
[tt]document.body.onbeforepaste=beforePaste;[/tt]

 

[tsuji]

Or it might be better?
[tt] window.onbeforepaste=beforePaste;[/tt]