Get CodeMirror instance

Question

I want to get an instance of CodeMirror (it is binded to a textarea '#code'). From an onclick-event I want to add a value to the current value of the CodeMirror instance. How can this be achieved? From the docs I can't seem to find anything to get an instance and bind it to a loca var in javascript.

Answer 1

Another method I have found elsewhere is as follows:

//Get a reference to the CodeMirror editor var editor = document.querySelector('.CodeMirror').CodeMirror; 

This works well when you are creating the CodeMirror instance dynamically or replacing an existing DOM element with a CodeMirror instance.

Answer 2

Someone just posted an answer but removed it. Nevertheless, it was a working solution. Thanks!

-- Basically this was his solution:

// create an instance var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea('code'); // store it $('#code').data('CodeMirrorInstance', editor); // get it var myInstance = $('code').data('CodeMirrorInstance'); // from here on the API functions are available to 'myInstance' again.