How to disable WYSIWYG for texarea boxes for News Module

[blackhawk]

When I create a field definition for a textarea, is there a way to always disable the WYSIWYG editor, and instead be in HTML mode just for that box on article pages?

Thanks for any advice

[psy]

Haven't checked but in your output template you could use the strip_tags modifier to remove the HTML.

{$myvar|strip_tags}

[blackhawk]

Thank you psy,
I meant more from an admin perspective...if the custom textarea field can be an HTML window by default, rather than a rich text editor window.

So yes, I want HTML in the textarea, but not all the extra elements that the rich text editor produces on the fly.