So I have a brand new fresh install of CKeditor, and it looks just fine, but it just doesn't do anything with the text inside the text area.
http://brightworkmedia.com.au/ckeditor/samples/
Can someone please help me out, I really can't figure out why it isn't working. Looks like maybe its not picking up some of the javascript from somewhere, but firebug only shows me a couple of obscure errors.
Do you really need all these
Do you really need all these plugins? It looks like you installed every possible one from the Addons Repository ;-) including some third-party stuff. In most similar cases this behaviour was caused by a plugin conflict (for example adding BBCode plugin when you want to output HTML only), so what I can recommend is to download either one of the pre-defined installation packages (Basic, Standard, Full) or use CKBuilder and add what you really need first.
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