Question: I've added a CKEditor instance programmatically to my page in the code-behind of my ASP.NET page:

VB.NET:

```
itemEditor = New CkEditor
cell.Controls.Add(itemEditor)

```

... which works fine. I can get the HTML on the postback and do stuff with it.

However, I also want to do some client-side stuff with it, specifically take a selected item out of another control, and insert it into the text by handling the `onchange` event.

So, how can I get the name of the editor instance in the JavaScript, so that I can do stuff like:

```
function GetCkText()
{
    var htmlFromEditor = CKEDITOR.instances['editorName'].getData();
    // do stuff with htmlFromEditor
}

```

Answer: 
Assuming you only have one editor instance:

```
for ( var i in CKEDITOR.instances ){
   var currentInstance = i;
   break;
}
var oEditor   = CKEDITOR.instances[currentInstance];

```

Here is what the JavaScript API says about [instances](http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.html#.instances).

Here is another way of defining the CKEditor. Here 'fck' is the input fields id:

```
CKEDITOR.replace( 'fck', {
    customConfig : prefix + 'js/ckeditor/config.js',
    height: 600,
    width: 950
});

editor = CKEDITOR.instances.fck;

```

Notice how I am then able to reference the instance using `.fck`.
If you only have a single instance and you do not know the name of it.

```
CKEDITOR.instances[Object.keys(CKEDITOR.instances)[0]].getData()

```