jQuery and TinyMCE: textarea value doesn't submit

Question

I am using jQuery and TinyMCE to submit a form, but there is a problem in serialization in that the Textarea value doesn't post.

Here is the code:

<form id="myForm" method="post" action="post.php">
    <textarea name="question_text" id="question_text" style="width:543px;height:250px;"></textarea>
</form>

language: lang-js

$('#myForm').submit(function() {
    $.ajax({
        type: 'POST',
        url: $(this).attr('action'),
        data: $(this).serialize(),
        success: function(data) {
            $('#result').fadeIn('slow');
            $('#result').html(data);
            $('.loading').hide();
        }
    })
    return false;
});

tinyMCE.init({
    // General options
    mode : "textareas",
    theme : "advanced",

    // Theme options
    theme_advanced_buttons1 : "bold,italic,underline,separator,image,separator,justifyleft,justifycenter,justifyright,jformatselect,fontselect,fontsizeselect,justifyfull,bullist,numlist,undo,redo,styleprops,cite,link,unlink,media,advhr,code,preview",
    theme_advanced_buttons2 : "",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_location : "top",
    theme_advanced_toolbar_align : "left",
    theme_advanced_statusbar_location : "bottom",
    theme_advanced_resize_horizontal : false,
    theme_advanced_resizing : true,
    extended_valid_elements :"a[name|href|target|title|onclick],img[class|src|border=0|alt|title|hspace|vspace|width|height|align|onmouseover|onmouseout|name],hr[class|width|size|noshade],font[face|size|color|style],span[class|align|style]",
});

Can you explain to me what I should change, and why, in order to get the value in the text area posted?

Answer 1

Before submitting the form, call tinyMCE.triggerSave();