Raphaël.InlineTextEditing

Inline text editing tool for Raphaël 2.0 & compatible with Raphaël Free transform. Supports SVG text elements with any type of transformation (scale, rotate, translate, matrix).

See demo

Licensed under the MIT license.

Example

var paper = Raphael(document.getElementById('container'), 740, 540);
var text = paper.text(250, 250, 'Hello').attr({'text-anchor': 'start', 'font-size': '25px'}).transform(['T', 242, -174, 'R', 36.9973, 'S', 2.0631, 1]);

// Initialize text editing for the text element
paper.inlineTextEditing(text);

// Start inline editing on click
text.click(function(){
	// Retrieve created <input type=text> field
	var input = this.inlineTextEditing.startEditing();

	input.addEventListener("blur", function(e){
		// Stop inline editing after blur on the text field
		text.inlineTextEditing.stopEditing();
	}, true);
});

Functions

startEditing()

Hide initialized text and add HTML input text at the same position.

Returns this text field.

stopEditing()

Remove the text field added with startEditing() and apply text modifications.

TODO

• Fix long text positionning when scaled
• Allow webfonts