Title: Application form and textarea embedding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Application form and textarea embedding

 *  Resolved [mjrmatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjrmatt/)
 * (@mjrmatt)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/application-form-and-textarea-embedding/)
 * Good morning, Gary. First off, thank you for an absolutely fantastic plugin that’s
   made my life MUCH easier when building my company’s website.
 * I have a very long application form that I’ve build in job-manager, and it works
   quite nicely, aside from one little quirk that occurs within the administration
   panel under “Job Manager –> Settings –> Display Settings –> Application Form 
   Template”. The editor for the template is a `textarea` and because of this, when
   I it adds the first `textarea` in my application form, the rest of my form appears
   outside of the text box and shows up as just part of the form. I realize that
   this is most likely a product of having a `textarea`s embedded in a `textarea`.
 * This hasn’t been a big problem, but it does result in some interesting behavior
   when I would try to update the form: If I update the form after inputting it 
   the initial time, only the code before the first embedded `textarea` will show
   up. The way that I’ve gotten around this has been to keep an HTML file with the
   whole application form in it, shortcodes and a all, and I update that and copy
   and paste the whole form into the text box again and all is well.
 * As I said earlier, it’s not a big problem, but I was wondering if you might know
   a way around this little problem, or if this is going to require some heavier
   changes than I’m equipped for? (I’m fairly proficient with HTML and CSS, but 
   PHP eludes me.)
 * Thank you again for a wonderful plugin and all of the time and effort you’ve 
   put into it and helping out it’s users. I am tremendously grateful.
 * [Screenshot of what’s happening in the administration panel.](http://mjricci.com/pictures/images/textarea-embedding.gif)

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 *  Thread Starter [mjrmatt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mjrmatt/)
 * (@mjrmatt)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/application-form-and-textarea-embedding/#post-2232004)
 * You can go ahead and ignore this: It helps to actually use the short codes that
   I create for myself…. ><
 * Thanks again, Gary!

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