How to capture content typed in a rich text editor div - Quill rich editor

Question

I am trying to fetch content that has been typed in the editor div of quill editor http://quilljs.com/examples/ using jquery codes but it does not seem to work. It works for other text inputs but not for the editor div. I have a running illustration below .

$(function(){
$(document).on("click", "#SubmitButton", function(e) {
e.preventDefault();

{				
		var question = $("#question").val();		
        var title = $("#title").val();
		
        alert (question);
  		alert (title);
			
		e.preventDefault();	
}
});	
});

advancedEditor = new Quill('#question', {
  modules: {
    'toolbar': 
	{  
		container: '#toolbar'
    },
    'link-tooltip': true,
    'image-tooltip': true,
    'multi-cursor': true
  },
  styles: false,
  theme: 'snow'
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.quilljs.com/0.20.1/quill.js"></script>
<link href="http://cdn.quilljs.com/0.20.1/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

<form id="postform" name="postform" action="">  

Title
<input  type="text" name="title" id="title">
<br>
     
     
<div class="advanced-wrapper" id="qs" style="width:95%; padding:0px; margin:0px;">
        <div class="toolbar-container" id="toolbar"><span class="ql-format-group">
            <select title="Font" class="ql-font">
              <option value="sans-serif" selected>Sans Serif</option>
              <option value="Georgia, serif">Serif</option>
              <option value="Monaco, 'Courier New', monospace">Monospace</option>
            </select>
            <select title="Size" class="ql-size">
              <option value="10px">Small</option>
              <option value="13px" selected>Normal</option>
              <option value="18px">Large</option>
              <option value="32px">Huge</option>
            </select></span><span class="ql-format-group"><span title="Bold" class="ql-format-button ql-bold"></span><span class="ql-format-separator"></span><span title="Italic" class="ql-format-button ql-italic"></span><span class="ql-format-separator"></span><span title="Underline" class="ql-format-button ql-underline"></span></span><span class="ql-format-group">
            <select title="Text Color" class="ql-color">
    
              <option value="rgb(187, 187, 187)"></option>
              <option value="rgb(161, 0, 0)"></option>
              
            </select><span class="ql-format-separator"></span>
            <select title="Background Color" class="ql-background">
              <option value="rgb(0, 0, 0)"></option>
              <option value="rgb(230, 0, 0)"></option>
            </select><span class="ql-format-separator"></span>
            <select title="Text Alignment" class="ql-align">
              <option value="left" selected></option>
              <option value="center"></option>
              <option value="right"></option>
              <option value="justify"></option>
            </select></span><span class="ql-format-group"><span title="Link" class="ql-format-button ql-link"></span><span class="ql-format-separator"></span><span title="Image" class="ql-format-button ql-image"></span><span class="ql-format-separator"></span><span title="List" class="ql-format-button ql-list"></span></span></div>
          <div id="question" class="editor-container"></div>
      </div>

<input  type="submit" class="btn btn-info"    id="SubmitButton" value="Post Your Question" />
      </form>

I want when i click the submit button, It captures also the content typed in the text editor div and alerts the values types.

Any help will be appreciated

Answer 1

Quill has it's own API for content retrieval. Replacing your click method with following code should allow you to get the plain text value from your Quill instance.

$(document).on("click", "#SubmitButton", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();   
  var question = advancedEditor.getText();
  var title = $("#title").val();    
  console.log(title, question);
});

Here's a link to Quill's documentation for retrieval methods