CKEditor support for textfields

If you have a plain text field in Drupal that uses the wysiwyg (ckeditor) widget, no text will appear and when you attempt to save the text entered in ckeditor will not save.

This is because of how CKEDITOR.replace() works. it will use the innerHTML() of any DOM element, http://docs.ckeditor.com/#!/api/CKEDITOR-method-replace. To get around this it might be possible to clone the original textfield before calling CKEDITOR.replace, replacing the textfield with a textarea. Then when the CKEDITOR instance is destroyed, the original textfield may replace the textarea that was created.