yiisoft/yii — pull request #1446 by resurtm (2012-09-21 08:04:35+00:00)
Title: Value of the CHtml::activeTextArea() can now be set through $htmlOptions['value'].

Sample:
```php

username='user1'; ?>
'user2')); ?>
```

This enhancement is not needed for `CHtml::textArea()` because it's value already could be specified through second parameter.