How do I remove all tinymce instances at startup?

I'm dynamically creating and destroying textareas for this purpose. However, when I create a textarea and then an instance of it in tinymce--then come back to the page again, it doesn't work. I've found that the solution is to simply remove any exis开发者_高级运维ting instance of that same name, but I was wondering if it's possible to just do it at startup.

Thanks in advance!

You have to make sure that the textareas or other elements for which you create a tiny instance need to have different ids.

To remove all tinymce instance you may use (tinymce3):

        for (var i = tinymce.editors.length - 1 ; i > -1 ; i--) {
            var ed_id = tinymce.editors[i].id;
            tinyMCE.execCommand("mceRemoveControl", true, ed_id);
        }

For tinymce4 use:

        for (var i = tinymce.editors.length - 1 ; i > -1 ; i--) {
            var ed_id = tinymce.editors[i].id;
            tinyMCE.execCommand("mceRemoveEditor", true, ed_id);
        }

Make sure to shut down instances the right way when you try to reinitialize a tinymce instance. Otherwise your editor window could stay white or it is not editable at all.

For me works this solution:

 tinymce.editors = [];

So, you can clear the editors array first and reinitialize the editor with init:

 tinymce.editors = [];
 tinymce.init({
    selector: 'textarea.tinymce',
    ...
 });

My colleague Beni discovered a smart solution to remove all existing TinyMCEs:

if(typeof(tinyMCE) !== 'undefined') {
  var length = tinyMCE.editors.length;
  for (var i=length; i>0; i--) {
    tinyMCE.editors[i-1].remove();
  };
}

This is what I'm using and appears to work fine:

while (tinymce.editors.length > 0) {
    tinymce.remove(tinymce.editors[0]);
}

TinyMCE V5

Remove all instances with:

tinymce.remove();

More info see this.

You can use these lines in onload function of javascript or on saving form of previous instance

if (tinyMCE.getInstanceById(id) != null)
{
  tinyMCE.execCommand('mceRemoveControl', true, id);
}

where id is the id of textarea or input on which the tinyMce is present