As the subject, this issue is very common in JSF.
I have an textarea, and in HTML Code (view in browser, copy by FireBug), it looks like this:
<textarea id="formEditor:textEditor" name="formEditor:textEditor" style="visibility: hidden; display: none; ">Content Here </textarea>
Re: Problem when textarea's id contain colon (:) character
var data = CKEDITOR.instances[ id ].getData();
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Re: Problem when textarea's id contain colon (:) character