FCKeditor Not Parsing Value on Load.

Hi there,
I had the same problem and wasted one whole day on it. For some reason if you set the value like this with PHP:

...
$oFCKeditor->Value = $HTMLcontent;
$oFCKeditor->Create(); // wont parse the HTML

so instead I made a hidden variable:

<input name="fckval" type="hidden" value="echo($HTMLcontent)" />

then the FCKeditor would be in javascript:

<script type="text/javascript">
var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor( 'body' ) ;
oFCKeditor.BasePath = "templates/martha/FCKeditor/" ;
oFCKeditor.Height = 300;
oFCKeditor.Value = document.forms[0].fckval.value ;
oFCKeditor.Create();
</script>

content is parsed so I can edit HTML again. Weird but works at least.

Yes, I was having the same issue. The confusing part is that there are really 2 values of the same markup that need to be worked with. When you store the produced html in your database, you want it in actual html to be used else where. When you are bringing in the html from the outside, you want that html encoded into compatible markup that works in your page. For example, actual html:
<p>test</p>

encoded value is:
&lt;p&gt;test&lt;/p&gt;

When you use a form field, the actual html above is automatically getting encoded. When you use java script, you are setting actual html. I recommend using the above posters method, even if you know how to encode the html in javascript.

Often your html wraps to new lines, and javascript has a bad time with line wrapping in syntax. So if you have:
var markup = <serverside variable here>
which actually ends up being:
var markup = '<p>test</p'>';
It would work if you encoded it. But, if it worked out to:
var markup = '<p> test </p>
<p>line 2</p>
<p>line 3</p>';
You would get javascript errors since javascript doesn't work well across multiple lines.

I am using my code with Struts, and have not completely tested it yet, but this seems to work:

Above in javaScript section
<script type="text/javascript" src="../fckeditor.js"></script>

<SCRIPT language ="javascript">
var markup;

function setDescription()
{
var oEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('FCKeditor1') ;
markup = oEditor.GetXHTML(true);

document.featuredItemFormBean.pageMarkup.value = markup; }

Down in the html form section I have
<input type="hidden" name="pageMarkup" value='<bean:write name="featuredItemFormBean" property="pageMarkup"/>'/>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor( 'FCKeditor1' ) ;
oFCKeditor.BasePath = '/admin/' ;
oFCKeditor.Value = document.featuredItemFormBean.pageMarkup.value ;
oFCKeditor.ToolbarSet = 'WEEK';
oFCKeditor.Create() ;
//-->
</script>
and on the submit button I have:
<html:submit property="action" onclick="setDescription()">Save Feature</html:submit>