How to display 'style'ed text in a textaea or... ???

[lihao0129@gmail.com]

The scenario is a RTF(Rich Text Format) editor where I can input text
and meanwhile display 'style'd text or multimedia( i.e bold fonts,
pictures, movies ) in the same box...

I am currently using some HTML tags in textarea and make a "preview"
and a "refresh" button to sync between the writepad(textar ea) and the
preview zone(div). But somehow the HTML tags in textarea look messy...
Since text in 'textarea' can not display HTML effects(maybe I was
wrong, please correct me), so I am actually trying to find a way to
both input text and display styles in one box..

Can someone shed some light to me on this problem or point me to some
(concept|term|l ink)s? really appreciate your time. : - )

Have a nice weekend,
lihao(XC)

[Evertjan.]

Re: How to display 'style'ed text in a textaea or... ???

lihao0129@gmail .com wrote on 09 feb 2008 in comp.lang.javas cript:

The scenario is a RTF(Rich Text Format) editor where I can input text
and meanwhile display 'style'd text or multimedia( i.e bold fonts,
pictures, movies ) in the same box...
>
I am currently using some HTML tags in textarea and make a "preview"
and a "refresh" button to sync between the writepad(textar ea) and the
preview zone(div). But somehow the HTML tags in textarea look messy...
Since text in 'textarea' can not display HTML effects(maybe I was
wrong, please correct me), so I am actually trying to find a way to
both input text and display styles in one box..
>
Can someone shed some light to me on this problem or point me to some
(concept|term|l ink)s? really appreciate your time. : - )
>

A quick googling:

How to Create a WYSIWYG Rich Text Editor in JavaScript
<http://www.webreferenc e.com/programming/javascript/gr/column11/index.html>

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