in this sample page, if you click on the first "Short Bio" - right sided "edit" link, there is where the jHtmlArea is placed
http://www.roxstyle.com/projects/blssi/cms/de-tool-v3/p-bio.html# the problem is that in firebug i can see the first style is element.style { width:0; } i have tried putting a width - inline on the parent "span" and in the css for the textarea itself, but the <div class="jHtmlArea" style="width: 0px;"> is generated and i can't figure out where in the js this happens. i would appreciate any help, or if this is not the right place to post this question, please let me know where i should post it.