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Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

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Posted on 18 Oct 2018 15:35:37 by

Hi, 

Everytime I add Rich text editor control on the New Form and publish to use that it just display the top bar of the editor but not the text input section. I try to set custom height width, auto height width but nothing is working, one thing that I noticed is I can click on the Expand Toolbar end of the rich text control bar and when I Collpase Toolbar it start displaying small input text section. 

In the Edit form it work fine, load the data fine in the rich text field, only in the New form I have this issue.

 

Thanks,

-Sal

 

 

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    SU-08120443-0 Profile Picture
    2 on 08 Dec 2024 at 04:59:00
    Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section
    Well, its Dec. 2024 and I can tell you that this is still an issue but I have a workaround. 
     
    For reference, I have a Power App that has a rich text editor that is inside a container.  This container is not visible by default.  I have a "Reply" button with the OnSelect property set to: Set(varShowReplyRichTextEditor, true).  The Visible property for the container is set to: varShowReplyRichTextEditor.  So when the Reply button is clicked, it causes this container to become visible.  But the rich text editor does not load properly.  The only part of the rich text editor you can see if the toolbar.
     
    Here is why this is happening according to Chat GPT:

    This issue occurs because the Rich Text Editor control in Power Apps does not always fully initialize its components when its parent container's visibility is toggled dynamically. Specifically, when a control or container becomes visible after being hidden, the Rich Text Editor may fail to render its text area properly due to the way Power Apps handles the control lifecycle.

    Root Cause:

    The Rich Text Editor control relies on DOM elements being rendered and properly initialized. When its parent container's Visible property is toggled, the initialization process can sometimes be incomplete, particularly if it happens too quickly or if the Rich Text Editor's layout recalibration doesn't occur as expected.

    Here is the Workaround:
    As I mentioned, the OnSelect property of my Reply button was set to: Set(varShowReplyRichTextEditor, true).

    I changed it to this:
    Set(varShowReplyRichTextEditor, false);
    Set(varShowReplyRichTextEditor, true)

    This ensures that the rich text editor control gets re-rendered property.  This is what worked for me.

     

  • shahana-alam Profile Picture
    2 on 22 Apr 2022 at 18:03:00
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    Today is 22nd Apr, 2022 and this issue still persists.

  • billbattny Profile Picture
    79 on 20 Apr 2022 at 13:19:35
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    I am also seeing this problem.  Workaround seems to work but not an ideal solution.  Is this a problem with Edge graphics rendering?

  • Anusha91 Profile Picture
    2 on 04 Feb 2022 at 22:43:02
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    Hi,

     

    Has a fix been applied to this issue?

     

     

  • SteveCochrane Profile Picture
    219 on 31 Jan 2022 at 09:52:39
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    This is the last day of January, 2022, and this problem still exists. The workaround still doesn't fix the issue, and we shouldn't have to add workarounds for very basic issues like this. Maybe we should all use MEAN stack if Microsoft no longer supports PowerApps. I have never worked with such a buggy software before in 20+ years of IT.

     

    Any idea what I should tell clients that rely on rich-text editors, and they have no way of editing them?

  • engons Profile Picture
    23 on 27 Oct 2021 at 18:31:23
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    Update: the workaround does work, but the thing was that the event "OnVisible" does not run every time I open the form. I put the TempVariable update action at "OnEdit" and "OnView" of the SharePointIntegration object, and that worked. Is this the expected behavior? When is supposed to run the OnVisible event?

  • engons Profile Picture
    23 on 27 Oct 2021 at 16:59:38
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    Hello,

    I am having the same issue, and the workaround does not work. Any other solution?

     

    Thanks,

  • flocka Profile Picture
    3 on 06 Oct 2021 at 05:00:44
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    I am also experiencing this issue with my PowerApp that is a custom form for SharePoint editing. the text input on Rich Text Editor sometimes does not show unless you refresh and will only show consistently when on the direct link to edit a specific SharePoint list item, rather than the edit pane that pops in from the right side.

     

    The above workaround did not work.

  • SteveCochrane Profile Picture
    219 on 14 Sep 2021 at 09:49:03
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    I will try this workaround, but it doesn't seem this fix was applied in the next two weeks - this is September, 2021, and the problem is still there. Hello, Microsoft? Have you abandoned the Power Platform? Moved on to something else?...

  • Community Power Platform Member Profile Picture
    on 18 Oct 2018 at 18:17:55
    Re: Rich Text Editor Not displaying text input section

    Thanks, the workaround worked.

     

    -Sal

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