How to set up CKEditor for multiple instances with different heights?

Question

I'd like to have multiple instances of CKEditor based on the same config settings, but with different heights. I tried setting up config with the default height, setting up the 1st instance, then overriding the height & setting up the 2nd instance:

var config = {
    .....
    height:'400'
};

$('#editor1').ckeditor(config);
config.height = '100';
$('#editor2').ckeditor(config);

...but I get two CKEditor instances that both have 100px height.

I also tried this:

CKEDITOR.replace('editor2',{
    height: '100'
});

.. I got error messages that the instance already existed. I searched around a bit & found someone in a similar situation got advice that you have to destroy() the instance before replace(), but that seems too complicated for just setting a different initial height.

In the end I set up two different configs & copied over the toolbar_Full property:

var config1 = {
    height:'400',
    startupOutlineBlocks:true,
    scayt_autoStartup:true,
    toolbar_Full:[
        { name: 'clipboard', items : [ 'Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteFromWord','-','Undo','Redo' ] },
        { name: 'editing', items : [ 'Find','Replace','-' ] },
        { name: 'basicstyles', items : [ 'Bold','Italic','Underline','Strike','Subscript','Superscript','-','RemoveFormat' ] },
        { name: 'paragraph', items : [ 'NumberedList','BulletedList','-','Outdent','Indent','-','Blockquote','-','JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyBlock','-','BidiLtr','BidiRtl' ] },
        '/',
        { name: 'links', items : [ 'Link','Unlink','Anchor' ] },
        { name: 'insert', items : [ 'Image','HorizontalRule' ] },
        { name: 'styles', items : [ 'Styles','Format','Font','FontSize' ] },
        { name: 'colors', items : [ 'TextColor','BGColor' ] },
        { name: 'tools', items : [ 'Maximize', 'ShowBlocks' ] },
        { name: 'document', items : [ 'Source' ] }
    ]
}

var config2 = {
    height:'100',
    startupOutlineBlocks:true,
    scayt_autoStartup:true
};
config2.toolbar_Full = config1.toolbar_Full;

$('#editor1').ckeditor(config1);
$('#editor2').ckeditor(config2);

Is there a better way? Anything I'm missing? There's this question but they didn't post quite enough to be useful, & this very similar question hasn't been answered. Thanks!

Update:

This seems to be a timing/config handling quirk of CKEditor -- the config is read & applied later (I'm guessing after the editor's DOM framework has been set up) rather than when the editor is first instantiated.

So, any changes to the config settings made immediately after the 1st editor is instantiated with .ckeditor() are actually applied by the editor at some point in the following several milliseconds. I'd argue this isn't normal behavior, or logical.

For instance, you can get the expected behavior in my first example (overriding the config.height property after the first editor has been instantiated) to work by delaying the 2nd CKEditor instance with setTimeout(). Firefox needed ~100ms, IE needed 1ms. Wacky & wrong.

CKEditor should read the config settings when each editor is first instantiated. For now, everyone has to work around that quirk.

Answer 1

Solution above from Reinmar is working for me, however I decided to give 1 more solution that i used before this one.

It's really simple, all you need to know is that ckeditor create content div element for every instance with almost the same id, only difference is incremental value. So if you have 2,3,4.. instances only difference will be ordinal number. Code is here:

    CKEDITOR.on('instanceReady', function(){
    $('#cke_1_contents').css('height','200px');
}); 

This event will be activated for every instance you have, so if you want to set height for all instances you could create global variable and use it like x in #cke_"+x+"contents, every time event is activated increase x for 1, check which instance in row is with simple if and then set height.

    var x=1;
CKEDITOR.on('instanceReady', function(){
    if(x==1) h='200px';
    else if(x==2)h='400px';
    else if(x==3)h='700px';
    $('#cke_'+x+'_contents').css('height',h);
    x++;
}); 

This is not best solution but it is working, problem is you actually see content div resizing.