Update textarea (tinyMCE) using Ajax/RJS

Rails
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Hi -

I have a which I am allowing users to select text bodies
which are automatically populating a textarea on the page - which they
can then edit.

This is working fine. However… once I add my tinyMCE editor to the
textarea it doesn’t work - it won’t update.

I am using the tinymce plug-in by Blake W…

I know tinymce initiates the textarea or filters its values through
its initiation, but curious how to execute this when I do my page
update via my rjs file.

Any help appreciated.

-Adam

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northband wrote:

Hi -

I have a which I am allowing users to select text bodies
which are automatically populating a textarea on the page - which they
can then edit.

This is working fine. However… once I add my tinyMCE editor to the
textarea it doesn’t work - it won’t update.

I am using the tinymce plug-in by Blake W…

I know tinymce initiates the textarea or filters its values through
its initiation, but curious how to execute this when I do my page
update via my rjs file.

Any help appreciated.

-Adam

try
page.call ( ‘tinyMCE.setContent’, ‘your content here’)
obviously if your content is a ruby variable, drop the quotes
This has problems if you have multiple editors on a page.
I also noticed that I had some trouble unless I used the html text_area
tag instead of the text_area helper, but ymmv.

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northband wrote:

Hi -

I have a which I am allowing users to select text bodies
which are automatically populating a textarea on the page - which they
can then edit.

This is working fine. However… once I add my tinyMCE editor to the
textarea it doesn’t work - it won’t update.

I am using the tinymce plug-in by Blake W…

I know tinymce initiates the textarea or filters its values through
its initiation, but curious how to execute this when I do my page
update via my rjs file.

Any help appreciated.

-Adam
Hi Adam,

I have a smiliar problem how did you update the text area? I have an id
associated with text area and on click of a tree element, I intend to
update teh content of text area somehow the position:top position:bottom
does not work.

Thanks,
Sudhi

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Here’s an old (2006) of mine that has an example of getting TinyMCE’s
javascript to work after some other javascript runs. Might be useful or
it
might be out of date.
http://blog.katipo.co.nz/?p=24

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Sudhi K. <