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I have HTML in a variable. Dealing with a WYSIWYG textarea; possible to insert styled/rich text?

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Posted on by BrendonKoz 60

The CKEditor instance I'm interacting with on a webpage doesn't have a "Source" button to toggle between HTML and rich text mode. I see that other Power (Automate) tools have richtext support. Am I missing something with Power Automate Desktop?

 

If not, I will attempt to paste into the webpage's hidden textarea field (that CKE is connected to) and execute some JS to update the CKE object/instance - just hoping I'm missing something simple!! [CKEDITOR.instances.EventDetail.insertHtml("")]

 

Pasting (via Send Keys) into the CKE instance will unfortunately paste the HTML as escaped characters, and won't render as rich text.

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    Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    PAD will not preserve rich text formatting. The only way to keep it would be using the clipboard and keystrokes to copy and paste values.

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