Thanks for the quick response. This link might be a little clearer. It's actually a link to a demo editor.
http://www.webstationone.com/test/htmlarea/
When you select the template button(13th from the left,center row) a
popup lets yoiu select from thumbnails and actually load "a block of
html" or a template. This way the end user has a choice of a few
different layouts to start from.
Preloading the text area would offer them 1 layout, and is an option but the multiple layout choices works very nicely
Best,