Mentions replace HTML losing after click outside textarea

[pbriongos]

Hi,
I have fully working the @ mentions with emojionearea (thanks to the @mervick code) but I have a problem. When you search the mention and click it returns the HTML ok to the textarea with this:
.... replace: function (value) { return '<b>@' + value + '</b>&nbsp;'; } ,... .
And it displays Ok in the textarea in bold, but when you click outside the textarea or any other element it reverts and the HTML surrounding dissappears, in this case the bold surrounding.

You can try here:
https://jsfiddle.net/7qwLcmv8/

Any form to mantain the HTML returned? And thus save ok to de DB and display it ok when claimed.

Thanks