With a lot of help I finally got the CKEditor to update the associated text area. See the post here.
However, I am stumped of how to get the CKEditor to update each
In case you replace textarea elements by class name, just do this:
CKEDITOR.on('instanceReady', function(event) { var editor = event.editor; editor.on('change', function(event) { // Sync textarea this.updateElement(); }); });