GhostText cannot detect or edit TinyMCE content
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Description
### Description and repro
Many technologies, including Moodle are adopting TinyMCE as their preferred Rich Text Editor, moving away from other RTE's such as ATTO.
GhostText is unable to detect or interact with content within TinyMCE. My suspicion is twofold:
1. That the TinyMCE editor loads within an iframe
2. That the TinyMCE editor itself does not contain a `` element. Rather, it seems to update a hidden textarea field in the parent/lauching doc.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Visit <a href="https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/latest/basic-example/">[Basic example | TinyMCE Documentation](https://www.tiny.cloud/docs/tinymce/latest/basic-example/)</a>
2. Attempt to use GhostText to connect to your preferred IDE (for me, this is SublimeText)
### Browser(s) tried
Chrome
### Editor(s) tried
SublimeText
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Research direction
Reproduce the failure in Chrome using TinyMCE’s Basic example and a SublimeText connection, then inspect how GhostText detects and edits the iframe-hosted editor and its hidden textarea. Done means GhostText can connect to TinyMCE and synchronize edits in both directions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100