Help Needed: Inserting Hyperlinks into

All - I have into an issue in which we can enter the hyperlink address into a <cftextarea richtext = "true"> but the hyperlink doesn't become active after entering it and/or hitting the space button. Has anyone run into this? Is there a fix? We are using the browser Firefox. We are not using IE.

Code Below:

<cftextarea richText="true" name="OperDesc" id="Desc" height=150" width="770"/>