sending form using jquery and wyiwyg editor

sending form using jquery and wyiwyg editor

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:


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



To take the value i do the following:
[code]
if
(comment. val ( )== '' ) {
var error = true;
comment. addClass ( 'hightlight' );
return false;
} else comment. removeClass ( 'hightlight' );
[/code]

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