[ACCEPTED]-jquery validation of textarea integrated with ckeditor-ckeditor

Take a look here

Basically you need to call

CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.updateElement();

before 2 running validation.

Just replace editor1 with the 1 name of your textarea.

Then call

$(myformelement).validate();

EDIT

$("#my-form-submit-button").click(function(e){
     e.preventDefault();
     CKEDITOR.instances.event-body.updateElement();
     $('#event').validate({
          ...options as above..
     });o
})

Put this in submit button mousedown() event:

$("#submit").mousedown(function(){
  for (var i in CKEDITOR.instances){
    CKEDITOR.instances[i].updateElement();
  }
});

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jQuery validator only validate input fields 3 that are visible but CKEDITOR makes the 2 textarea hidden preventing it from being 1 validated.

I've combined your sugestions and make this 4 little cheat that works with no problem.

My 3 code:

<form id="create-message-form-3" class="form-horizontal" role="form" accept-charset="utf-8">
                <div class="title"><h1>Add Content:</h1></div>
                <div class="col col-12">
                  <textarea class="form-control ckeditor" name="templateeditor" id="templateeditor" rows="6"></textarea>
                  <p class="error"></p>
                </div>



                <div class="text-center">
                    <a class="btn btn-success pull-left" href="create-message-2.php">Back</a>
                    <input class="btn btn-default" type="button" value="Save">
                    <input id="submit-templateeditor" class="btn btn-success pull-right" type="submit" value="Next Step">
                </div>
             </form>

On my .css file, I forced my to be 2 like this:

textarea.ckeditor {
visibility: visible !important;
display: block !important;
height: 0px !important;
border: none !important;
resize:none;
overflow: hidden; }

And my .js validation is the normal 1 format:

    $("#submit-templateeditor").click(function(){
     CKEDITOR.instances.templateeditor.updateElement();
     $("#create-message-form-3").validate({
        rules: {
            templateeditor: "required"
        },
        messages: {
            templateeditor: "Please add some code before continue"
        },
        errorPlacement: function(error, element){
            $(element).each(function (){
                $(this).parent('div').find('p.error').html(error);
            });
        }
    });
});

Use this in your javascript where you are 4 validating your form. It will update your 3 ckeditor and will assign ckeditor's value 2 to your textarea to which you integrate 1 it.

It should run before form is submitted:

CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.updateElement();

If you are attaching it like

$("#Detail").ckeditor(config);

than you will 3 need to use something like this

var editor = $('#Detail').ckeditorGet();
editor.updateElement();

I use this 2 example function to submit my form in this 1 case

function SubmitEvent(){
    var editor = $('#Detail').ckeditorGet();
    editor.updateElement();
    if($("#EventForm").valid()) {
        $('#EventForm').submit();
    }
}

I would prefer to update each instance on 2 blur event, so you don't need to change 1 anything on your submit function! :)

$('#myInstance').ckeditor({toolbar:'MyToolbar'});
CKEDITOR.instances.myInstance.on('blur', function( e ){
    CKEDITOR.instances.myInstance.updateElement();
});

jQuery .validate() function provides "onsubmit" option 5 to perform custom action before validation. By 4 default it is set to true. I have 3 used it in my project and it works very 2 well.

        $(".selector").validate({
          onsubmit: function(){
                    CKEditorUpdate();
                    return true;
                },
                rules:{
                    title:{required:true},
                    content:{required:true}
                },
                messages:{
                    title:{required:"Please enter a title"},
                    content:{required:"Please enter some content"}
                },
                submitHandler : function(form){
        });

    function CKEditorUpdate() {
        for (instance in CKEDITOR.instances)
            CKEDITOR.instances[instance].updateElement();
    }

This is a cleaner and much easier to 1 understand approach. Refer http://jqueryvalidation.org/validate#onsubmit

IF your using SPRY, This is what worked 1 for me....

<script>
$(document).ready(function () {

    CKEDITOR.instances["editor1"].on("instanceReady", function () {

        //set keyup event
        this.document.on("keyup", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor1"].updateElement(); });
        //and paste event
        this.document.on("paste", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor1"].updateElement(); });
        //and cut event
        this.document.on("cut", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor1"].updateElement(); });

    });

    CKEDITOR.instances["editor2"].on("instanceReady", function () {

        //set keyup event
        this.document.on("keyup", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor2"].updateElement(); });
        //and paste event
        this.document.on("paste", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor2"].updateElement(); });
        //and cut event
        this.document.on("cut", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor2"].updateElement(); });

    });

    CKEDITOR.instances["editor3"].on("instanceReady", function () {

        //set keyup event
        this.document.on("keyup", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor3"].updateElement(); });
        //and paste event
        this.document.on("paste", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor3"].updateElement(); });
        //and cut event
        this.document.on("cut", function () { CKEDITOR.instances["editor3"].updateElement(); });

    });

});
</script>