<div class="intro">

<p>Use the Editor's NodeChange Event</p>

</div>

<div class="example">

{{>editor-nodechange-source}}

</div>

<h3>Working with EditorBase</h3>

<p>`EditorBase` is not a fully functional Editor, it is simply the base utility that will be used under the hood to create an Editor.</p>

<h3>Creating the Editor</h3>

<p>In this step we are going to do the initial render of the Editor, set its content, and focus it when it's ready.</p>

```

YUI().use('editor', function(Y) {

//Create the Base Editor

var editor = new Y.EditorBase({

content: '<p><b>This is <i class="foo">a test</i></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: Comic Sans MS">This is <span class="foo">a test</span></b></p>',

extracss: '.foo { font-weight: normal; color: black; background-color: yellow; }'

});

//Rendering the Editor.

editor.render('#editor');

});

```

<h3>The Node Change Event</h3>

<p>The `nodeChange` event is a special event that Editor emmits so that you can react to certain important moments that occured.</p>

<p>The most common use for the `nodeChange` event is to update the state of a Toolbar.</p>

<h4>nodeChange event properties</h4>

<p>This list contains the properties that are added to the Event object when the `nodeChange` event is fired.</p>

<table>

<thead>

<tr>

<th>Event Property</th>

<th>Description</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`changedEvent`</td>

<td>The event that caused the nodeChange</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`changedNode`</td>

<td>The node that was interacted with</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`changedType`</td>

<td>The type of change: mousedown, mouseup, right, left, backspace, tab, enter, etc.</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`commands`</td>

<td>The list of execCommands that belongs to this change and the dompath that's associated with the changedNode</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`classNames`</td>

<td>An array of classNames that is applied to the changedNode and all of its parents</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`dompath`</td>

<td>A sorted array of node instances that make up the DOM path from the changedNode to body.</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`backgroundColor`</td>

<td>The cascaded backgroundColor of the changedNode</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`fontColor`</td>

<td>The cascaded fontColor of the changedNode</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`fontFamily`</td>

<td>The cascaded fontFamily of the changedNode</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td nowrap="nowrap">`fontSize`</td>

<td>The cascaded fontSize of the changedNode</td>

</tr>

</tbody>

</table>

```

//Attaching a nodeChange event

editor.on('nodeChange', function(e) {

//Here e contains the values above..

});

```

<h3>Full Example Source</h3>

<h4>HTML</h4>

```

{{>editor-nodechange-source-html}}

```

<h4>CSS</h4>

```

{{>editor-nodechange-source-css}}

```

<h4>Javascript</h4>

```

{{>editor-nodechange-source-js}}

```