I confirm that mattbee's solution worked for me in leiu of the answer from the questioner. As indicated, I inserted the code in line 99 above the following line:
if($input.hasClass('jqtranformdone') || !$input.is('input')) {return;}
For those who are not aware of this, insert the code ABOVE line 99, and NOT REPLACE line 99 as follows:
if( $input.hasClass('ignore') == true ) { return; } if($input.hasClass('jqtranformdone') || !$input.is('input')) {return;}
I did not see the opportunity to comment on the mattbee answer, so I presented it in the answer form.
EDIT: The above code will tell jqTransform to skip / exclude / ignore / exclude input elements. In my case, I used it to exclude type = "text" and type = "image". However, applying the .ignore class to a textarea element did eliminate the unwanted conversion, but for some reason further excluded the conversion of my select elements. Note that editing in jquery.jqtransfrom.js for the text area was done in the textarea function, starting at line 201 of the original unedited document, and not in the text field function, starting at line 95 in the above code block.
Here is an example of what I tried (put ABOVE line 207):
if( $textarea.hasClass('ignore') == true ) { return; }
I repeat, this worked, but also ruled out the transformation of my blocks of choice, which were not my intentions.
After finding solutions, I came across the following blog post: http://www.deliciouscoding.com/post.cfm?entry=use-jqtransform-and-tinymce-together
Essentially, the table jqTransform creates to replace the textarea elements is replaced with a text field or, more simply, it cancels the conversion:
<script language="javascript"> jQuery(function(){ jQuery("form.transform table").replaceWith('<textarea></textarea>'); }); </script>
For those new to jQuery, the above code should be placed at the head of your document (i.e. between <head> and </head> ).