TinyMCE not grabbing content from textarea before hiding that textarea

Question

I have an instance of TinyMCE running on a page that enables me to edit existing posts. I query the db, and populate the variable $content with the stored text. I t

Answer 1

Try the following. Give your textarea the id "editor1", use mode: "exact", instead of mode: "textareas", and initialize your editor the following way (keep the tinymce init where it is for now, but before the following lines)

$(document).ready(function() {
    tinyMCE.execCommand('mceAddControl', false, 'editor1');
}