My HTMLArea Editor isn't working!

When I try to access HTMLArea in the Admin area of my site I get the following error being generated by IE8

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; OfficeLiveConnector.1.4; OfficeLivePatch.1.3)
Timestamp: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:25:08 UTC

Message: 'HTMLArea' is undefined
Line: 30
Char: 7
Code: 0
URI: http://:censored:/:censored:/:censored:/define_pages_editor.php?define_it=9&action=new_page&vcheck=yes

Message: 'HTMLArea' is undefined
Line: 20
Char: 39
Code: 0
URI: http://:censored:/:censored:/:censored:/define_pages_editor.php?define_it=9&action=new_page&vcheck=yes

Why won't my HTML editor appear when trying to edit pages? What in God's name does the above error mean? How do I rectify it?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

JB Webb-Benjamin

I have solved the problem by removing the .htaccess file from the /root/editors/ folder. Once this is done the HTMLEditor worked fine. I am using a Linux site hosted with Fasthost which doesn't appear to allow the rewrite function inclusion suggested by some others on this site.

My HTMLArea Editor isn't working either.
I am using version 3.08
Site is https://www.kvtrains.com
I moved the site from a sub folder https://www.kvtrains.com/new to the root directory. https://www.kvtrains.com
Now the HTMLArea Editor does not work. I installed TinyMice editor and that does not show up when chosen. Can someone please help me.
Thank you in advance.
K.

If I delete the htaccess file from root/editors folder my etitor works fine. Is there a fix for this without compromising my security?

Thanks!

Work with your hosting company to fix the limitations they've imposed which don't support the security protections offered by the settings in that .htaccess file. Requirements are listed inside that file.

DrByte:

Work with your hosting company to fix the limitations they've imposed which don't support the security protections offered by the settings in that .htaccess file. Requirements are listed inside that file.

I have yet to see the menu appear in HTMLArea Editor on a Local server I have setup using XAMPP. Zen cart V1.3.9h. Using
IE 8
Mozilla Firefox 5.0

It would be great if there were some instructions to configure another editor, maybe Xinha-096.1

Xinha is almost as old and obsolete as HTMLArea is. Integrating that would be a waste of time.

There's a CKEditor addon in the Free Addons area. CKEditor is the one of the most modern browser-based editor tools around.
If that fails to work on your localhost XAMPP setup as well, then it would seem to point to a problem with your local setup.

I am using Zen cart V1.3.9h.
I am trying to use the TinyMCE, since the original htmlarea was not working but I have the following problem:

• TinyMCE works on Define Pages Editor
• TinyMCE does not work on Product Description

I am using "Portugues" language in admin area, but even when I change to English the same happens.

Strange.