Partial parse
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Discussed in https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/discussions/3711 <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 webpagethe webpage has some fixed part that the user can't editthe 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) statemen...
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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: Alternative approaches: Listen to selector:add for CSS selector changes Use selector:custom fo...
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