passing RTE input to a hidden field

I know this may be a stupid question but I am trying to build a news editor similair to the one on here but useing RTE 3 So I put the shortnews and title and date on the first page then it is passed to the second page and placed in a hidden field awaiting submission the second page has another RTE to do long news. saying all that heres the problem.
 If I put text in the first RTE it works fine. but if I add a picture to the first page (shortnews) and call for it in the hidden field it cuts off after the img source=

Here is the code for the short news

short_news = request.Form("short_news")

 <input name="short_news" type="hidden" id="short_news" value="<%= short_news%>">

any ideas?

Tryed that it didnt work. the one way that did work was to add another textarea at the top of the page and not give it a RTE (on the second page ) but hten it looks wierd because its diplaying code. kinda looks unprofessional guess i could make my non code writing friends feel good and put the words (you wrote this code) above that box. Im going to keep working on this I will get it if it kills me

Thanks Borg!
Worked great for those who want to know how....heres how

 on the second page i put a text area inside of a table row
 then i attached a .class css file to it

the CSS

 .hiddenfield {
    height: 0px;
    width: 0px;
    display:none;
}


the form

 <td class="hiddenfield">        <table width="10%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
          <tr>
            <td><textarea name="short_news" cols="1" rows="1" wrap="OFF" id="short_news"><%=Session("short_news")%></textarea></td>
          </tr>
        </table></td>

 worked like a charm and easy to do


 thanks borg