Update: solved! This certainly this was more a ckeditor question, but anyway, just in case someone had a similar problem:
the right way to update the textarea using javascript is
*CKEDITOR.instances.UpdateContent.insertText('newer content')*
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Hugo Escobar <hesco...@afslc.com> wrote:
> Hi there:
>
> I been implementing a testing environment for custom code based on
> selenium webdriver.
>
> Testing environment: CentOS 6.3, Apache, MySQL, Firefox.
>
> So far, I've been successful in running a set of test cases, the only
> problem I have is when I try to update the textarea (create, or reply
> ticket). The js script executes showing no errors, etc but the content
> never changes. My assumption is that the ckeditor is not updating
> its content when a value has been assigned to the textarea element.
>
> I show below a couple of the js snippets of my unsuccessful attempts:
>
> =-=-=-
> document.getElementsByName('UpdateContent')[0].value='Testing ticket
> reply.'
>
> =-=-=-=
>
> function UpdateFields() {
>
>
>
> for (instance in CKEDITOR.instances) {
> CKEDITOR.instance.setData('asdfasdfasdf');
> // CKEDITOR.instances[instance].setData('asdfasdf');
> }
> }
>
>
> Any help will highly appreciated!
>
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