diff --git a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
index 3fa18f64a7..27b2b6ee2e 100644
--- a/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
+++ b/api/src/Etemplate/Widget/HtmlArea.php
@@ -105,26 +105,29 @@ class HtmlArea extends Etemplate\Widget
 	 * Create an array of toolbar as sel options
 	 *
 	 * @return array
-	 * 		[
-	 * 			id => {string}
-	 * 			label => {string}
-	 * 			title => {string}
-	 * 			icon => {string}
-	 * 			app => {string}
-	 * 		]
+	 *        [
+	 *            id => {string}
+	 *            value => {string}
+	 *            label => {string}
+	 *            title => {string}
+	 *            icon => {string}
+	 *            app => {string}
+	 *        ]
 	 */
 	public static function get_toolbar_as_selOptions ()
 	{
 		$toolbar_selOptions = array();
 		foreach (self::$toolbar_list as $toolbar)
 		{
-			$file = '/api/templates/default/images/htmlarea/'.$toolbar.'.svg';
-			$toolbar_selOptions[$toolbar] = array (
-				'id' => $toolbar,
+			$file = '/api/templates/default/images/htmlarea/' . $toolbar . '.svg';
+			$toolbar_selOptions[$toolbar] = array(
+				'id'    => $toolbar,
+				// Selectbox validation can't understand all these options without value
+				'value' => $toolbar,
 				'label' => lang($toolbar),
 				'title' => lang($toolbar),
-				'icon' => file_exists(EGW_SERVER_ROOT.$file)?Api\Framework::getUrl($GLOBALS['egw_info']['server']['webserver_url'].$file):'',
-				'app' => 'api'
+				'icon'  => file_exists(EGW_SERVER_ROOT . $file) ? Api\Framework::getUrl($GLOBALS['egw_info']['server']['webserver_url'] . $file) : '',
+				'app'   => 'api'
 			);
 		}
 		return $toolbar_selOptions;
diff --git a/preferences/inc/class.preferences_hooks.inc.php b/preferences/inc/class.preferences_hooks.inc.php
index 5c43015bb1..1a902abb04 100644
--- a/preferences/inc/class.preferences_hooks.inc.php
+++ b/preferences/inc/class.preferences_hooks.inc.php
@@ -456,19 +456,12 @@ class preferences_hooks
 				'default' => '1',
 			),
 			'rte_toolbar' => array(
-				'type'	=> 'taglist',
-				'label'	=> 'Enabled features in toolbar',
-				'name'	=> 'rte_toolbar',
-				'values'=> '',
-				'help'	=> 'You may select features to be enabled in toolbar. Selecting any of the tools from here means seleted "Feature of the editor" preference would be ignored.',
-				'admin'	=> true,
-				'attributes' => array(
-					'allowFreeEntries' => false,
-					//'multiple' => 'toggle',
-					'editModeEnabled' => false,
-					'autocomplete_url' => ' ',
-					'select_options' => Api\Etemplate\Widget\HtmlArea::get_toolbar_as_selOptions()
-				)
+				'type'   => 'taglist',
+				'label'  => 'Enabled features in toolbar',
+				'name'   => 'rte_toolbar',
+				'values' => Api\Etemplate\Widget\HtmlArea::get_toolbar_as_selOptions(),
+				'help'   => 'You may select features to be enabled in toolbar. Selecting any of the tools from here means seleted "Feature of the editor" preference would be ignored.',
+				'admin'  => true
 			)
 		);
 		// disable thumbnails, if no size configured by admin
diff --git a/preferences/inc/class.preferences_settings.inc.php b/preferences/inc/class.preferences_settings.inc.php
index c52aa9a238..60d6454be8 100644
--- a/preferences/inc/class.preferences_settings.inc.php
+++ b/preferences/inc/class.preferences_settings.inc.php
@@ -479,6 +479,7 @@ class preferences_settings
 						$tpl->setElementAttribute($tab . '[' . $setting['name'] . ']', 'autocomplete_url', '');
 					}
 					$setting['type'] = 'et2-select';
+					$setting['multiple'] = true;
 					$tpl->setElementAttribute($tab . '[' . $setting['name'] . ']', 'multiple', true);
 					break;
 			}
@@ -532,7 +533,10 @@ class preferences_settings
 				'onchange' => $setting['onchange']
 			);
 
-			//		'attributes' => $setting['attributes']
+			foreach($setting['attributes'] as $attr => $attr_value)
+			{
+				$tpl->setElementAttribute($tab . '[' . $setting['name'] . ']', $attr, $attr_value);
+			}
 			//error_log("appname=$appname, attribute=$attribute, setting=".array2string($setting));
 			$content[$tab][$setting['name']] = $GLOBALS['egw']->preferences->{$attribute}[$appname][$setting['name']];
 			//if ($old_type == 'multiselect') $content[$tab][$setting['name']] = explode(',', $content[$tab][$setting['name']]);