# Update textarea (tinyMCE) using Ajax/RJS **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-textarea-tinymce-using-ajax-rjs/132869 "2008-03-25T13:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-textarea-tinymce-using-ajax-rjs/132869/1 "2008-03-25T13:49:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2008, 3:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-textarea-tinymce-using-ajax-rjs/132869/2 "2008-05-23T15:58:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-textarea-tinymce-using-ajax-rjs/132869/3 "2009-03-12T07:00:01Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@northband](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/northband)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2009, 2:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/update-textarea-tinymce-using-ajax-rjs/132869/4 "2009-03-15T02:10:19Z")
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](http://blog.katipo.co.nz/?p=24) On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Sudhi K. \<