Using jQuery to grab the content from CKEditor's iframe

Question

I have a custom-written CMS that uses CKEditor *(FCKEditor v3) for editing content. I\'m also using the jQuery Validation plugin to check a

Answer 1

I think the user was asking about serializing, I was struggling serializing a form to submit and it was giving me a lot of issues.

This is what worked for me:

$(document).ready(function() {
$('#form').submit(function(){
if ( CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData() == '' ){
    alert( 'There is no data available' );//an alert just to check if its working
}else{
    var editor_data = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getData();
    $("#editor1").val(editor_data); //at this point i give the value to the textarea
    $.ajax({ 
                    //do your ajax here  

                     });

        }
return false;
    });
 });