Check if Sharepoint Richt Text Editor Field is empty or not (works in IE, Firefox and Chrome)

Found out this week that the code for checking the content of a multi-line rich text field was 
not working for other than IE-browsers.
So after some debugging in Chrome I found a solution that works in Chrome and in Firefox.
I hope that it's also working in other browsers... but I don't have them to my position at work.
Have fun with my new code... 

 firefox/chrome bugfix...
    var scomments = "";
    if ($.browser.msie) 
 {     
  // IE browser, check on language needed because Sharepoint and IE Translates the IFrame name in different languages.   
  if (_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage == 1036) 
  {
            var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='Éditeur de texte enrichi']").contents().find("body");
            scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
        }
        else
        {
            if (_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage == 1043) 
   {
                var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='RTF-editor']").contents().find("body");
                scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
            }
            else
            {
                var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='Rich Text Editor']").contents().find("body");
                scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
            }
        }
 }
 else
 {
 // if other browser
        var systemDescriptionRTETextArea = $("textarea[Title='Comments']"); 
        scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTETextArea).val(); 
 }
  

Now you can check with the 'scomments' variable is it is empty or containing some values.

Check if Sharepoint Richt Text Editor Field is empty or not

Today I had some problems to do a check wether a Rich Text Editor field is filled in or not. 
I found out that sharepoint also translates the Title of the Rich Text Editor field. 
That was really unexpected because the iframe is dynamically constructed in the browser. 
So you would expect that changing the MUI language would translate the 
Title propertie of the RTE field.
So for Frensh, Dutch and English MUI languages you could do the check like below.

var scomments = "";
if (_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage == 1036) {
    var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[Title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='Éditeur de texte enrichi']").contents().find("body");
    scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
}
else
{
 if (_spPageContextInfo.currentLanguage == 1043) {
        var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[Title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='RTF-editor']").contents().find("body");
        scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
    }
    else
    {
        var systemDescriptionRTE = $("textarea[Title='Comments']").closest("span").find("iframe[Title='Rich Text Editor']").contents().find("body");
        scomments = $(systemDescriptionRTE).text();
    }
}

 
 

Bugfix available at this new blogpost :
 http://andydevelopments.blogspot.com/2012/10/check-if-sharepoint-richt-text-editor.html 

Full screen width SharePoint Rich Text Editor

It can be frustrating in SharePoint when the "Rich Text Editor" on the edit page 
of Wiki's, Blogs, Edit pages is set to fixed column width by default Sharepoint.  

We get frequently the question to enlarge the width of the editor. This because
it's easier to fill in text in a fullscreen-width editor!
 
Here's the CSS to make it happen (warning, this syntax applies to ALL rich text editors!). 

The first does all normal forms and wikis:

<style> 
#onetIDListForm, #onetIDListForm .ms-formbody, #onetIDListForm iframe[title="Rich Text Editor"]{
 width:100% !important;
}
</style> 
 

And this does the same for Blogs!

<style> 
.ms-formbody span span div iframe, .ms-formbody span span table.ms-long{
 width:100%; text-align:left;
}

</style>
 

You just to need to put the code in a Content Editor Webpart on your page.

I hope that your customers enyoi the full width Rich Text Editors like ours...