Edits to page containing form data displays some form code in WP edit page itself

[dasspunk]

I created a contact page (see code below) and save and everything is fine... but when I go to edit the page again, the last few lines of form code are missing and has become included in the WP edit page itself.

Steps:

1. Create a page
2. Enter the contact form code below and save
3. Edit contact page

Occurs on WP 2.0.2
Occurs in Safari and Firefox (latest)
Does NOT occur on WP 1.5.2

Form Code:

Use this form to email Mike and/or get on his mailing list.
<form name="contact" method="GET" action="form_mail.php" onSubmit="return checkemail(this);">
<p />
Name:<br />
<input type="text" name="name" maxlength="100" size="40"/><br />
E-mail:<br />
<input type="text" name="email" maxlength="200" size="40"/><br />
Subject:<br />
<input type="text" name="subject" maxlength="200" size="49"/><br />
Message:<br />
<textarea name="message" rows="10" cols="50" wrap="virtual"></textarea><br />
<br />
<input type="checkbox" name="add_me" />Add me to Mike&#8217;s Mailing list!</p>
<p />
<input type="submit" value="send it!"/> <input type="reset" value="reset"/><br />
</form>

[mdawaffe]

The problem is the TEXTAREA element.

​http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=103281&atid=635682&func=detail&aid=1155822

This appears to be an unsupported feature of TinyMCE.

You have some options:

1. Make the TEXTAREA the last element in your form and use CSS to put it back in the right place.
2. Turn off rich editing whenever you want to edit that page. (Users->Your Profile, @ the bottom)
3. Create a page template: ​http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

None of these fixes the bug, however. They're just workarounds.

[abhay]

Since this is a limitation of TinyMCE, I think this falls under the wontfix category.

[markjaquith]

Let's let Andy make the call on this, since he's our TinyMCE expert.

[davidhouse]

Oops.

[skeltoac]

Valid bug. However, it's not a common concern and you can work around it. I don't see this as something we need to write a bunch of code for.