Partial parse
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<div type='discussions-op-text'><sup>Originally posted by ltenti August 17, 2021</sup> Hi everyone,
I'm wondering how to address this kind of scenario:
- I have to allow the users of my application to edit a webpage
- the webpage has some fixed part that the user can't edit
- the whole HTML is produced server-side by a legacy subsystem, but some part inside it has to be freely editable by the user I realized a custom component that fetches the legacy HTML from the server and "inject" it in the canvas with a model.components(data) statement. I was thinking about creating a new component type (something like doNotEditMe) with property "editable" set to false and then assigning data-gjs-type="doNotEditMe" to all the elements of the original HTML that has to be not-editable. Do you think I'm crazy?
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Thanks for reporting this, @ltenti.
Great suggestion about Partial parse! While this specific feature isn't yet in the core API, there are several ways to achieve similar behavior.
Using the event system:
editor.on('component:update', (component) => {
// your logic here
});
Alternative approaches:
- Listen to
selector:addfor CSS selector changes - Use
selector:customfor custom rules - Tap into the
change:*events for fine-grained tracking - Build a plugin that extends the editor with this capability
Making it official: If this feature would benefit many users, consider opening a formal Feature Request on the GrapesJS repo with:
- A detailed use case
- Code example showing the desired behavior
- Why this matters for your workflow
The core team is receptive to well-motivated feature requests backed by real use cases.
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