How to set the initial text in a TinyMCE textarea?

Question

I\'m in a curious situation where I previously had no problem achieving what I\'m looking for. The following code is a part of an HTML page which is to host a TinyMCE rich t

Answer 1

Given that the presence of

tags causes the transformation, I suspect that your HTML ends up looking like:

...
<p>This text is supposed to appear in the rich textbox</p>
...

Unfortunately, HTML elements aren't technically allowed inside </code> tags, so something may be considering the <code><p></code> tags as the start of a new block element, implicitly closing your textarea. To fix this, you can encode the angle brackets:</p> <pre><code>... <textarea id="editing_field"><p>This text is supposed to appear in the rich textbox</p> ...

Using PHP, this can be done by sending your value through htmlspecialchars() before echoing it to the page.