How to check whether CKEditor has some text in it?

Question

I have an HTML form with a few fields. One of them is a textarea managed by CKEditor.

When the user wants to submit the form, I want to check whether he entered values

Answer 1

You can use the following snippet to check if the ckeditor has some text.

var _contents = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.document.getBody().getText();
if (_contents == '') {
    alert('Please provide the contents.') ;
}