Javascript value of a textarea with richtext?

I think it's the other way round. ColdFusion.getElementValue('textareaName') should work when richtext="true". In my test, it did. But it failed when I changed to richtext="failed".

That is probably because ColdFusion.getElementValue() is designed to work only for bindable fields. Whereas the setting richtext="true" is bindable, the setting richtext="false" is not.

We could work around this by using a hidden field to make richtext="false"bindable, too. Something along these lines:

<script type="text/javascript">   
      function getText() {
           
          var txt = ColdFusion.getElementValue('textareaName');
          alert(txt);
          return true;
      }
</script>

<cfif isdefined("form.textareaName")>
<cfdump var="#form#">
</cfif>

<cfform name="myForm" id="myForm" onSubmit="return getText()">
  <cftextarea name="textareaName" bindAttribute="richtext" bind="{yesOrNo}" richtext="false"></cftextarea>
  <cfinput name="yesOrNo" type="hidden">
<cfinput type="submit" name="sbmt" value="Submit">
</cfform>