Display Style Inside a Text Area

**Scally_Ally** · 08-19-2005 03:19 AM

Hi there,
Does anyone know of a way that i can display styled text within a text area/box?

say i wanted to write something like this..

<text area>
I am <span class="style1> tearing </span>
my hair out over this <span class="style2">Project</span>
</text>

The text does not get displayed in the relevant styles and all the text gets written to the page.

Anyone know of a workaround to this?

Thanks

Ally

**deep.dhyani** · 08-19-2005 03:35 AM

use this code

<html>
<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function insertText(){
document.frm.document.write("<b>This is</a><font color='red'>Test </font>!");

//alert();
}
</script>
</head>

<body onload="insertText()">
<iframe id="frm" name="frm"></iframe>

</body></html>

**the tree** · 08-19-2005 03:48 AM

It seems you can't put markup into a textarea or input field. But you could always make something look like a text area.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<title>This is not a text box.</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
div.boxlike{
border: 3px inset #fff;
padding: 5px;
width: 300px;
font-family: monospace;
}
div.boxlike p{
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}
em.mega{
color: #f00;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="boxlike">
<p>This is <em>not</em> a text box.</p>
<p>No really, it <em class="mega">isn't</em>.</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

**Scally_Ally** · 08-19-2005 03:57 AM

Thats cool deep, but i need to be able to edit the text that is written aswell.. That was why i was using a text area..

I have tried writing to cells of tables, although that works, i then cannot edit the text and save it again.

Do you have any other ideas??

Thanks

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