Why is my form not posting data?

• the rich text error is really an iframe sitting on top of your textarea, which means that your textarea is empty (or contains the initial value) while you are updating and not the updated text
• only when you submit the form does the the text in the editor get assigned to your textarea field (see RTE_javascript.asp line 161 to 187)

• the value is assigned to your textarea when the onsubmit event is fired (this can only be done with a button of type=submit or of type=image)
• you cannot fire this event with javascript (so if you have something like href = "javascript:form.submit();" or onClick = "javascript:form.submit();" it won't work, yes the form will submit but the onsubmit event is not fired and you end up with a blank textarea)

• use a submit button
• if you want to use an image instead then use a button of type=image (this works - i'm using this approach)
• if you need to do validation or other stuff just before submitting the form, place the javascript function in the form action (i.e. action="javascript:SubmitMyFormFunction();") then write your code in this javascript function and submit the form by form.submit();
• this works because when your submit button is clicked it will call the onsubmit event first (assigning the editor text to your textarea) and then your javascript function will be called (again see the code in RTE_javascript.asp)

I hope this saves someone else from the head-cracking work it took me, not to mention the time...Other than that the RTE is great, i will purchase it soon!