How do I populate editor from database?

[Cadellin]

Thanks once again Lynne - I'm closing in on the solution.

I'll try to explain my problem differently incase that helps.

I used this article to include the WYSIWYG editor in my custom template. Using the method in that guide the editor is included by using {vb:raw messagearea} - which works fine for posting.

What I'm struggling is using the WYSIWYG editor to edit existing messages.

I've had a good search around the templates & functions but work out where to insert my value="x"