function init() {
	
	// create a new configuration object having all the default values
	var config = new HTMLArea.Config(); // create a new configuration object

	config.width = '500px';
	config.height = '300px';

	config.toolbar = [
		[ "fontname", "space", "fontsize", "space", "formatblock", "space",
  		"bold", "italic", "underline", "separator", "strikethrough", "subscript", 
		"superscript", "separator", "space", "undo", "redo" ],
		
		[ "justifyleft", "justifycenter", "justifyright", "justifyfull", "separator",
  		"insertorderedlist", "insertunorderedlist", "outdent", "indent", "separator",
  		"forecolor", "hilitecolor", "textindicator", "separator", "inserthorizontalrule", 
		"createlink", "htmlmode", "separator", "about" ]
	];

	config.pageStyle = 'body { font-family: arial,verdana,sans-serif }';

	// The following replaces the textarea with the given id with a new
	// HTMLArea object having the specified configuration
	HTMLArea.replace('content', config);
}