Resetting textarea PHP content

Does anybody know how to reset the content of CKeditor texarea? The reset button works fine for a normal textarea, but when I add class="ckeditor" then edit the text and click reset the content stays as per edited version (ie doesn't change back). The content is dynamically generated in PHP from a mysql database using an object for page functions. The code I have is as follows:

<form action="thispage.php" method="post">
<label>Text:</label>
<textarea class="ckeditor" cols="30" id="body" name="body" rows="10"><?php echo $page->body; ?></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Update Text" />
<input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" id="reset" />
</form>

I have also tried replacing the reset button with the following:
<input type="button" value="reset" onclick="this.form.elements['body'].value='<?php echo $page->body; ?>'"/>

Please let me know how I can create a button to reset the content in the CKeditor textarea.

Thanks!

Tue, 04/13/2010 - 18:53

mjj

Joined: 13/04/2010

Posts: 1

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

I too am running into this issue. Is there a good workaround for this? It looks like the reset button does reset the hidden text area, but the editor does not get updated to match this change?

It seems like if I could force the editor to refresh from the underlying textarea, or if I could remove the existing editor and create a new one (thus forcing it to reload from the underlying form element), I would be able to work around the problem. I haven't quite gotten this approach to work yet, though I might be doing something slightly wrong.

Is there a better way to accomplish this?

Thanks.

Tue, 04/13/2010 - 19:04

marie

Joined: 19/03/2010

Posts: 2

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

Hi MJJ

I haven't found a solution, but since posting I noticed the undo button, which is ok for most situations, unless you've made a lot of changes then it becomes tedious. Please let me know if you find a solution...

Thanks

Thu, 04/29/2010 - 17:42

txxoo

Joined: 22/03/2010

Posts: 5

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

It seems that a ticket is opened about this issue :
http://dev.fckeditor.net/ticket/5346

My workaround is to use a button type button instead of a reset type one to reload the page (with the previous values) :

<input id="cancel"  value="Reset" type="button" onclick="window.location=window.location" />

Thu, 11/04/2010 - 08:06

livinphenomenon

Joined: 04/11/2010

Posts: 1

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

I've faced the same problem. I had to reset a form but the ckeditor textarea didn't reset at all.

Here's how I solved this :
Using jquery, I just emptied the body content of the iframe of the ckeditor

$('iframe').contents().find('body').empty();

Thu, 01/13/2011 - 05:38

ajmako

Joined: 13/01/2011

Posts: 1

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

If you don't want to reload the page, and it's possible the editor content wasn't initially blank (such as when a user is editing content), try this:

CKEDITOR.instances.InstanceName.setData("Initial content goes here.");

This can be bound to the OnReset event for the form.

Thu, 04/07/2011 - 08:07

hane

Joined: 05/04/2011

Posts: 5

Re: Resetting textarea PHP content

Thanks a lot to make understand the problem about reset the content of CKeditor texarea.Thanks.

utpol