Here's a basic HTML editor:
textarea,iframe { width: 400px; height: 300px;}<textarea></textarea><iframe></iframe>var textarea = document.querySelector('textarea');function preview() { var iframeDoc = document.querySelector('iframe').contentDocument; iframeDoc.open(); iframeDoc.write(textarea.value); iframeDoc.close();}textarea.addEventListener('input', preview);It updates the HTML and CSS you put in the textarea, but you can't use JavaScript const or let variables as it throws the following syntax error as soon as you edit the inserted code:
Identifier * has already been declared
To see what I mean, insert the following sample code in the textarea:
<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>Sample Code</title></head><body><p>Hello!</p><script> const p = document.querySelector('p'); p.style.color = 'blue';</script></body></html>Now change Hello! to Hello, world!, or blue to red.
What's the solution so the user can keep editing the code without getting that error?
Update
Inspired by svarlitskiy's answer, I finally decided to replace the iframe with a newly-created one:
function preview() { var iframe = document.createElement('iframe'); document.querySelector('iframe').replaceWith(iframe); var iframeDoc = iframe.contentDocument; iframeDoc.write(textarea.value); iframeDoc.close();}
