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getElementID will not work with FCKEditor, so after some searching and hacking, I figured it out.

You SHOULD have some javascript code to initialize the editor that looks something like this:

	<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
		var oFCKeditor = new FCKeditor( 'answer' ) ;
	    oFCKeditor.BasePath	= 'js/fckeditor/' ;
		oFCKeditor.Height	= 300 ;
		oFCKeditor.Width	= 500 ;
	    oFCKeditor.ReplaceTextarea() ;
	    oFCKeditor.EnableOpera = true;
   	    oFCKeditor.EnableSafari = true;

		//-->
	</script>

In order to get the current value of whatever is in your editor, all you need to do is this:

var answerText = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('answer')
showmethetext = answerText.GetHTML();

Tada, showmethetext will work!