Using multiple textarea tags

Using more than one <textarea> tag in a page seems to upset the editor display window. The first text box will appear in the Page Text editor panel, but any subsequent boxes will appear below the Page Text box as part of the editor window itself (and so can no longer be edited via HTML).

Hi Neil
I can replicate this so will add it to the issues list. Hopefully we can find a fix for the next release but can you explain what you are trying to achieve?

e.g. in the meantime could you use the html view and add something like:
and then in script:
Not ideal but depends on what you are trying to achieve? e.g. would the documentation page help?

HTH
Ron

I was trying to create table with empty cells where students have to fill in the blanks. It needed to be free text rather than drag and drop.

With a bit of playing this morning, I think I've managed to adapt the layout of the documentation page type enough to do what I need to do. You can see this here: xerte.cardiff.ac.uk/play_8549

Page 1 is the documentation page type, while page 2 is the manual table.

I ran into this problem again (I just wanted to add a single textbox), and tried your fix, but I get the same problem.

I'm guessing it's because the Xerte editor sees the closing </textarea> and thinks it relates to the editor window.

I tried escaping the code, but that does seem to work either.

OK, not that I think anyone else will likely need to do this, but here is my workaround: