Overwriting TextArea on a web page

[TOPSie]

I only discovered AutoIT 24 hours ago and already I have made some great progress. But I have hit an issue which I think should work (and advice on this forum says it should) but it doesn't work for me.

Probably something very simple but I can't get it to work.

I navigate (successfully) to a web page and do a few things. Then I want to completely overwrite the (html) text in a text area.

On the web page the text area is defined:-

<textarea id="description" name="description" rows="20" class="rteIfm" title="Description" style="visibility: hidden; display: none; "><LOTS OF HTML TEXT></textarea>

I want to replace <LOTS OF HTML TEXT> with <SOME DIFFERENT HTML TEXT>

Here is the code I have written:-

Local $oFormText = _IEGetObjByName($oIE, "Selling")

Local $oIEText = _IEFormElementGetObjByName($oFormText, "description")

MsgBox(0,"Description",$oIEText.value)

_IEFormElementSetValue($oIEText, "SOME DIFFERENT HTML TEXT")

When I run this the MsgBox displays the correct value (LOTS OF HTML TEXT) but after the _IEFormElementSetValue nothing has changed on the screen - it still displays the old value???

[TOPSie]

Well apparently, it does work. The change was not visible on the screen as I was watching the AutoIt script do its thing, but after changing the text I moved on and found and clicked the "Continue" button on the website and after obeying this the next screen showed that the text had indeed been updated.

So I should have had more faith and carried on....

Ho hum - solved my own problem :-)