Assign id to textarea

im looking to assign an id to the textarea to pull in an ajax query to populate the textarea from the database, looking through the Docs for CKeditor i come across this

<static> {String}  CKEDITOR.config.bodyId
Since: 3.1
Sets the "id" attribute to be used on the body element of the editing area.

NO EXAMPLE AVAILABLE

Default Value:
    ''

so i added this line to config.js (which i suppose is where it goes as the docs point to no example)

config.bodyId = 'content';

but as it is it is not pulling the created id into the text area, did i add it to the right place, also ckeditor version is 3.2 thanks

EDIT i noticed that on the Docs page right at the top is a referance to core/config.js which contains config.bodyId = '' i have now populated this with the id i wish to assign and still nothing is showing when viewing the source code

Wed, 03/10/2010 - 21:32

petera

Joined: 26/02/2010

Posts: 11

Re: Assign id to textarea

Hi,
Have you tried to populate just the textarea, without enabling ckeditor? If that works, then make sure that the textarea is populated with the content before running the ckeditor init. Since ckeditor replaces the textarea with it's own elements, the textarea maybe isn't around when your ajax tries to fill it up.

Just an idea... Haven't tested it.

/Peter

Sat, 03/13/2010 - 12:54

martinj

Joined: 12/02/2010

Posts: 9

Re: Assign id to textarea

I changed a few things since i wrote the original post, now im using CKeditor as plain html and javascript as you can see by the code below

 <textarea id="editor1" name="editor1"></textarea>
            <script type="text/javascript">
                CKEDITOR.replace( 'editor1',
 {
     filebrowserBrowseUrl : 'ckfinder/ckfinder.html',
     filebrowserImageBrowseUrl : 'ckfinder/ckfinder.html?type=Images',
     filebrowserFlashBrowseUrl : 'ckfinder/ckfinder.html?type=Flash',
     filebrowserUploadUrl : 'ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Files',
     filebrowserImageUploadUrl : 'ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Images',
     filebrowserFlashUploadUrl : 'ckfinder/core/connector/php/connector.php?command=QuickUpload&type=Flash'
 } 
 );
            </script>
           </p>
           <p>
            <input type="submit" name="submit" />
           </p>
</form>

and yes Petera you are correct, it could well be something to do with when ajax or ckeditor fires as when i use a plain html textarea with no instance initiated the area loads fine with my database content, so my next question is what do (or can ) i do to get around this?