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 textareas 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.