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I am trying to add an extra field to my pages which is a text area. In that text area I want to add links which will be clickable once viewed on the page.

I made an extra field in the page structure which I set to textarea with the following html code: [code]<textarea  type="text" class="editor" name="newpagetext" cols="90" rows="5" ></textarea>[/code]

Now, the problem is if you add multiple lines of text it will simply display all those lines of text without a break (or enter to go to the next line) and also it wont read bbcode it will display the plain text (and so the bbcode). So, I tried to write the text in html but that too does not work, it will again show plain text (and so the html code).

Anyone has any idea how I can make a text area actually work properly? Meaning, if I want text to be placed on the next line it actually does that instead of displaying all after eachoter without a break and also is there a way to make the text into clickable urls like you have in the normal text area?

ps, I tried to search but the search function here is pretty useless. it always comes up with 100 pages of results no matter if you specificy words or combinations.

So, I used google to search the site but that too did not give me any results.