sending form using jQuery problem...

[sassenach]

Hi,

My site: http://www.orchot-hagilboa.com/index.php?mid=1

My jquery form is working properly in most areas except where i have an online wysiwyg editor.

If you look at the right side of the site, you will see the editor. It creates a textarea form field.

When i send the form, the reply_desc (textarea name) is empty.
I do an alert on that and you can see its empty as well.

The way I grab my textarea is:

var comment = jQuery('textarea[name=reply_desc]'); 
        alert(comment.val());

To take the value i do the following:

if (comment.val()=='') {
                    var error = true;
                    comment.addClass('hightlight');
                    return false;
                } else comment.removeClass('hightlight');

If everything is ok, i sent it to get processed in my php page, but it doesnt even get there because the reply_desc is empty.

Can someone tell me why it is not working with the editor, yet it works fine with a basic <textarea> field???
thanks

[Hangfire]

Try

var comment = jQuery('textarea[name=reply_desc]').html();
alert(comment.val());

[sassenach]

I get the following error in firefox:
Error: comment.val is not a function
Source File: http://www.orchot-hagilboa.com//includes/jquery/validate_form2.js
Line: 272

Line 272 is: alert("editor value-->"+comment.val());

what do u think?

[Hangfire]

Pretty sure you could go with.
Alert("editor value-->" + comment);

no need for the .val() bit.

HTH

[sassenach]

im still getting an empty value.
sending the form (textarea) the regular way works just fine, using $_POST.
I am not sure why its not working with jQuery.
any ideas?

[Hangfire]

change jQuery('textarea[name=reply_desc]'

to this

jQuery("textarea[name='reply_desc']"

[sassenach]

nope. still empty.

[Hangfire]

Can you post your complete code up?

[alexhernandez]

nope. still empty.

Hi,

before sending your form you need to explicitly set the value of your form field with the rich text editor.

like:

document.forms["formname"].fieldName. value = $(RTObject).value //it depends on what editor you are using.

after that you can submit the form.

HTH