Will updating the textarea update the editor?

Well after some testing, it looks like FCKeditor does NOT 'watch' the hidden textarea for changes (using textarea.onchange or similar). Also note (from O'Reilly's JavaScript reference: "the onchange() event hander is not invoked when the value property of a Textarea object is set by JavaScript". So that might not work anyway.

But this is the solution that I found:
function changeIt() {
newHtml = '<h1>This is the new HTML!<\/h1>';
document.form1.FCKeditor1.value = newHtml;
if (this.FCKeditorAPI) {
this.FCKeditorAPI.__Instances['FCKeditor1'].SetHTML(newHtml);
}
}

I'm using this as a way of providing 'templates' for my users. They can click a link and the content of the editor gets swapped out. There actually should be an 'if' statement in there to check for FCKeditor.

Hope this helps others with similar issues.

-Jeff

> There actually should be an 'if' statement in there to check for FCKeditor.

Whoop. Ignore that. I put it into the code example.

The cool thing about this template script is that it should work even if FCKeditor is not installed/invoked/compatible.