jQuery to pre-fill a form using tinyMCE RTE -

hope doing well. problem:

i have table generated foreach loop, want able click on specific cell in each row, should take data in cell , use pre-populate tinymce text area in dialog box. have far:

the td want target in each row:

<td class="cmts" id="id">comments</td> 

the dialog want pre-fill before(or after opening):

<div id="cmts_dialog" name="cmnts_dialog" title="comments"> <form id="cmnts_dialog_form" name="cmnts_dialog_form">     <fieldset>         <textarea id="comments_input" name="comments_input"></textarea>     </fieldset> </form> </div> 

i'm trying populate textarea jquery far doesn't work:

$(document).on('click','.cmnts',function(){         $('#comments_input').val($(this).text()); }) 

i can dialog stuff figured best method populate text area before use .dialog('open'), i'm open solutions

any appreciated. :]

found answer in api docs tinymce

tinymce.get('comments_input').setcontent($(this).text());