this junk is doing nothing at all

codemirror.js

<script src="javascripts/codemirror/js/codemirror.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
 var textarea = document.getElementById('user_about');
 var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(textarea, {
   content: textarea.value,
   parserfile: ["parsexml.js", "parsecss.js", "tokenizejavascript.js", "parsejavascript.js", "parsehtmlmixed.js"],
   stylesheet: ["javascripts/codemirror/css/xmlcolors.css", "javascripts/codemirror/css/jscolors.css", "javascripts/codemirror/css/csscolors.css"],
   path: "javascripts/codemirror/js/",
   lineNumbers: true,
   iframeClass: 'ifc'
 });