How to check a component or element is present in canvas or not
Hi @Indhumathi2016 you can use find method: cheers!
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I have been trying to enable a checkbox in trait on load, when a element is present in canvas but unfortunately i don't know how to check the element is present or not, i'm trying the following code in onRender() method const canvasElement = editor.DomComponents.getWrapper(); let isGdprEnabled = false; if (canvasElement.getEl().getElementById('gist-gdpr')) { isGdprEnabled = true; } when i tried the above code, i got error "getElementById is not a function" if i used getElementsByClassName it return the HtmlCollection but when i trying to get the length of HtmlCollection it returns 0, but actu...
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Hi @Indhumathi2016 you can use find method:
const wrapper = editor.getWrapper()
const el = wrapper.find('#gist-gdpr')[0]
cheers!
@pouyamiralayi It's working fine when i do like this
editor.on('load', () => { const wrapper = editor.getWrapper() const el = wrapper.find('#gist-gdpr')[0] });
Thanks
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