Is it possible to initialize the value in a lightning:inputRichText, like with a lightning:input or ui:inputText?

Question

I can initialize the value of a lightning:input by doing this:

Component:

<lightning:input aura:id="subject" type="text" label="Subject" name="subject" />

Controller:

component.find("subject").set("v.value", "Hello!");

Result:

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However, with lightning:inputRichText, when I follow the same pattern, the UI does not show the value, but if I alert(component.find("body").get("v.value")), it shows the expected value.

Component:

<lightning:inputRichText aura:id="body" />

Controller:

component.find("body").set("v.value", "<p>This will be init properly once I switch to ContentNote</p>");

Result:

Can anyone point me in the right direction with this? At the moment, the component documentation doesn't have anything relevant besides listing value as an attribute.

Answer 1

The below code worked perfectly fine for me

<aura:component implements="force:appHostable,flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,flexipage:availableForRecordHome,force:hasRecordId,forceCommunity:availableForAllPageTypes,force:lightningQuickAction" access="global" >
 <aura:handler name="init" value="{!this}" action="{!c.doInit}"/>
 <lightning:inputRichText aura:id="body" />
</aura:component>

Controller code is as below

  ({
     doInit : function(component, event, helper) {
       component.find("body").set("v.value", "<p>This will be init properly once I switch to ContentNote</p>");
     }
 })