diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/RichEdit.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/RichEdit.pm
index f9ae3a7ec..993962eef 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Asset/RichEdit.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Asset/RichEdit.pm
@@ -572,14 +572,11 @@ sub getRichEditor {
 	$config{height} = $self->getValue("editorHeight") if ($self->getValue("editorHeight") > 0);
 	$config{plugins} = join(",",@plugins);
 
-    $self->session->style->setScript($self->session->url->extras('yui/build/yahoo/yahoo-min.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
-    $self->session->style->setScript($self->session->url->extras('yui/build/event/event-min.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
-    $self->session->style->setScript($self->session->url->extras('tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_src.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
-    $self->session->style->setScript($self->session->url->extras("tinymce-webgui/callbacks.js"),{type=>"text/javascript"});
     my $out = '';
     if ($ask) {
         $out = q|<a style="display: block;" href="javascript:toggleEditor('|.$nameId.q|')">|.$i18n->get('Toggle editor').q|</a>|;
     }
+    $self->richedit_headTags;
     $out .= qq|<script type="text/javascript">\n|;
     if ($ask) {
         $out .= <<"EOHTML1";
@@ -605,6 +602,25 @@ EOHTML1
 }
 
 
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+=head2 richedit_headTags ( )
+
+Similar to the headTags method for Form plugins, this sets all Javascript and CSS links for the
+richeditor to work.
+
+=cut
+
+sub richedit_headTags {
+	my $self = shift;
+    my $style = $self->session->style;
+    my $url   = $self->session->url;
+    $style->setScript($url->extras('yui/build/yahoo/yahoo-min.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
+    $style->setScript($url->extras('yui/build/event/event-min.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
+    $style->setScript($url->extras('tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/tiny_mce_src.js'),{type=>"text/javascript"});
+    $style->setScript($url->extras("tinymce-webgui/callbacks.js"),{type=>"text/javascript"});
+}
+
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 =head2 indexContent ( )
diff --git a/lib/WebGUI/Form/HTMLArea.pm b/lib/WebGUI/Form/HTMLArea.pm
index 2d7ad4002..dde8131ea 100644
--- a/lib/WebGUI/Form/HTMLArea.pm
+++ b/lib/WebGUI/Form/HTMLArea.pm
@@ -157,6 +157,8 @@ Set the head tags for this form plugin
 sub headTags {
     my $self = shift;
     $self->session->style->setScript($self->session->url->extras('textFix.js'),{ type=>'text/javascript' });
+    $self->{_richEdit} ||= WebGUI::Asset::RichEdit->new($self->session,$self->get("richEditId")); 
+    $self->{_richEdit}->richedit_headTags if $self->{_richEdit};
 }
 
 #-------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -182,7 +184,8 @@ Renders an HTML area field.
 sub toHtml {
 	my $self = shift;
 	my $i18n = WebGUI::International->new($self->session);
-	my $richEdit = WebGUI::Asset::RichEdit->new($self->session,$self->get("richEditId"));
+	my $richEdit = $self->{_richEdit};
+    $richEdit ||= WebGUI::Asset::RichEdit->new($self->session,$self->get("richEditId")); 
 	if (defined $richEdit) {
 	   $self->set("extras", $self->get('extras') . q{ onblur="fixChars(this.form['}.$self->get("name").q{'])" mce_editable="true" });
 	   $self->set("resizable", 0);