When wanting to get the content of editor with val() it returns empty value

[xillibit]

When wanting to get the content of editor in live with val() it returns empty value

Steps to reproduce the problem

1. At start the content of the editor should empty
2. Write something in the editor
3. Click on a button which call sceditor.instance(document.getElementById('message')).val();
4. It return just an empty value

[sulaiman0dawod]

Simple example .

<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="20" cols="70"></textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
var textarea = document.getElementById('message');
$("#message").sceditor(textarea);
var MyEditor = $("#message").sceditor("instance");
</script>

To view the text in PHP
echo $_POST['message'];

to Inserts HTML into WYSIWYG editor OnClick
MyEditor.wysiwygEditorInsertHtml("ddddddddd");
Insert BBcode
MyEditor.insertText("ddddddddd");

<a target='dddddd' OnClick="window.parent.PBBEditor.wysiwygEditorInsertHtml(this.target);" />
 Html Link
</a>

Complete example

<textarea id="message" name="message" rows="20" cols="70"></textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
			var textarea = document.getElementById('message');
			var partialmode = 0;
			sceditor.create(textarea, {
			    plugins: 'undo',
				format: 'bbcode',
				bbcodeTrim: false,
				style: "sceditor/minified/themes/content/default.min.css",
			    fonts: "Arial,Arial Black,Tahoma,Droid Arabic Kufi,Georgia,Impact,Sans-serif,Serif,Times New Roman,Comic Sans MS,Courier New,Trebuchet MS,Verdana",
				{$_CONF['info_row']['content_dir']}: 'bool',
				width: "100%",
				enablePasteFiltering: true,
				emoticonsEnabled: true,
				emoticonsRoot: "sceditor/emoticons/",
				emoticons:{
				    dropdown: {
				        ':)': 'emoticons/smile.png',
				        ':angel:': 'emoticons/angel.png'
				    },
				    // Emoticons to be included in the more section
				    more: {
				        ':alien:': 'emoticons/alien.png',
				        ':blink:': 'emoticons/blink.png'
				    },
				    // Emoticons that are not shown in the dropdown but will still
				    // be converted. Can be used for things like aliases
				    hidden: {
				        ':aliasforalien:': 'emoticons/alien.png',
				        ':aliasforblink:': 'emoticons/blink.png'
				    }
				},
              emoticonsCompat: true,
			    toolbar: "bold,italic,underline,strike|right,center,left,justify|font,size,color,removeformat|cut,copy,pastetext|bulletlist,orderedlist|table|codebrush,quote|horizontalrule,{$mention}image,email,link,unlink|emoticon,youtube,video|bbcodeslist|ltr,rtl|print,maximize,source",

});
$(function() {
	$("#message").sceditor(textarea);
	MyEditor = $("#message").sceditor("instance");

});
</script>