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I would like to hide the editing area of a web page so that it wasn't visible until it was wanted.
The editing area itself is filled by php from a database:

<div id="editMe">

<form name="edit" action="<?php echo $editFormAction; ?>" method="POST">

      <input type="hidden" name="id" value="<? echo $row_data['id'] ?>"  />

    <textarea name="html" rows="1" cols="1"><? echo $row_data['html'] ?></textarea>

<input type="hidden" name="MM_update" value="edit">
<input type="submit" value="Save Changes" />
</form>
</div>

Hiding this onload with document.getElementById('editMe').style.display="none";
causes the fckeditor to fail, presumably because it hasn't initialised. In fact if you set a timeout delay, then it does work, but you have the editing area flash up for a while which is tacky.

So does anyone know of a way to check if the Replace Textarea function has completed, so I can test for this before I hide the area?

Or has anyone got round this another way/

Many thanks
Jamie Aylward