@Silentium: thanks! Now I understand why the textarea has html tags and also html entities (when I look at the html source in my TinyMCE editor).
But the set_value() function has another purpose: re-populating a form when the posted values don't meet the form_validation rules.
In order to get that working for textarea's, I've added this function to MY_form_helper.php:
PHP Code:
function set_ta_value($field, $tv = NULL)
{
$CI =& get_instance();
if ($CI->input->post($field)) return $CI->input->post($field);
return $tv;
}
Works really great now.
