ckeditor & form validation

[eluser]fesweb[/eluser]
Disclaimer: I've never used the ckeditor helper/library, so I can't help with that aspect of things.

I use ckeditor for jquery, so you treat the textarea as a textarea and apply the CKEditor via jQuery.

Code:

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$(document).ready(function(){
    $('textarea.editor').ckeditor();
});
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<textarea name="my_text" class="editor"><?php echo set_value('my_text', ''); ?></textarea>