How to ajax-submit a form textarea input from CKEditor?

you need to first call the following, to make the CKEDITORs update their related fields.. for ( instance in CKEDITOR.instances ) CKEDITOR.instances[instance].updateElement(); so HTML <a onClick=”CKupdate();$(‘#article-form’).ajaxSubmit();”>Submit</a> and javascript function CKupdate(){ for ( instance in CKEDITOR.instances ) CKEDITOR.instances[instance].updateElement(); }