I found this post about using richtext controls in front-end forms. However, I did what was suggested but no rich text controls are appearing in the front-end comments form.

I would like the user to be able to use bold, underline and so on, and eventually also text colours and emoticons. I know the users will ask for that 2 minutes after the new site went live.

I successfully implemented TinyMCE but unfortunately, its formatting does not persist.
How can I do this with the build-in CKEditor?