Question

This syntax for some reason isn’t working and I’m wondering why. When I alert the values in the page, I can see everything but the textarea value. I’m not even getting an undefined.

var report  = $("textarea#report").val();

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Here is my html:

<textarea id="report" name="report" rows="25" cols="10" style="width:100%;height:200px;"><?php echo $_POST['report']; ?></textarea>

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<form id="rpt" action="">

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I have this code that Paolo helped me with last week. This is the start of the jquery code which also has some editor code mixed in with it

$(document).ready(function()
{
  $('.error').hide();
  WYSIWYG.attach('dfarReport', rpt);
  WYSIWYG_Core.addEvent(window, "load", function()
  {
    $('#Save').removeAttr('onclick').click(function()
    {

I tried adding Jonathan’s suggested code to this but I get errors when I do this. I also changed “report” to something different just in case but that didn’t help either.

IT’S WORKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To get this to work. I added the following:

$(document).ready(function()
{
  $('.error').hide();
  WYSIWYG.attach('dfarReport', dfar);
  WYSIWYG_Core.addEvent(window, "load", function()
  {
    $('#Save').removeAttr('onclick').click(function()
    {
      WYSIWYG.updateTextArea('dfarReport');   <-------------- This is where it needs to go

Answer 1

EDIT

var report  = $("textarea#report").val();

should be working, however, if you’re referencing it by id, then you don’t need to use textarea as well

var report  = $("#report").val();

would be equivalent

Also, Are you sure about the name. no typos?

Edit

with OpenWYSIWYG, use WYSIWYG.updateTextArea('report'); before calling the value via javascript