Editor - Additional clean up for field types
Editor - Additional clean up for field types
rduncecb
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Some field types such as selectize require additional cleanup to remove DOM nodes, events etc.
The Editor destroy function is useful for cleaning up an Editor instances, particularly important in a single page application.
It would be useful if plugins could implement their own destroy function to clean up after themselves and Editor destroy would execute plugin/field type destroy functions if they have one.
Currently, creating an Editor with a selectize field type leaves the selectize DOM elements after calling destroy so have to be cleaned up manually. Field Types that are implemented as plugins can not currently be cleaned up using the Editor API (as far as I can tell, please correct me if I'm wrong 
).
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It looks like I've failed to document this. You can actually have a
destroyfunction on a field plug-in. I'm not sure why that slipped through, but I'll get it added - thanks!I'll also look into updating the plug-ins that are available to make use of it.
Regards,
Allan
Hmm, I take a closer look, I added a destroy function to my selectize plugin and it failed to get called. Possibly my error, will get back here if not.
Can confirm,
destroy()function in a field type plugin function works and is called as part ofdestroy. Many thanks.