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Can't call `setValue` on Editor React component

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BUG

What’s the current behavior?

Editor react component instance is missing the setValue method. In plugin event handler, I can’t call editor.setValue as it’s undefined.

What’s the expected behavior?

Editor react component instance has the setValue method. It should be possible to call editor.setValue from plugin event handler.

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Created 4 years ago
Reactions:1
Comments:7 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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ianstormtaylorcommented, May 9, 2019

Hey, this is by design because setValue is an internal-type method for setting things up. Event handlers should not be calling editor.setValue and should instead be using operations to achieve this.

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neutraalicommented, Apr 11, 2019

Slate needs more docs on how to utilize the Editor in an uncontrolled way, without having to deal with handling 1000s of state transitions. I’m looking for something like setValue (and getValue?) as well since it’s mentioned in the docs, but when I try to access it from the Editor ref it’s undefined.