problem with html codes showing in textarea html code such as <p> and < br>

Question

I'm doing something rather elementary - doing a <textarea cols="60" rows="35"> textarea scrollable text box.... the problem im getting is html keeps popping up regardless of whether its written in wordpress html or text mode - in text mode on wordpress, when the selected say <br> is selected, it selects all the text, so i cant delete that or it will delete all the text....

Answer 1

It's a bit unclear to me what your problem is exactly. If you posted the problematic html we could use an editor to play around with it and try and help find a solution.