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

That second example is empty tag notation. If you want the text to be inside the tage you need to do it like the first way <teatarea ....>foo

What is outputting the textarea tags? Can you debug that to see if it is doing the empty tag notation?

Eric