different colors in a textarea

[clarissa1996]

I am trying (without success) to define a textarea with two words: the first word yellow and the second word red.

Here is my code (not working):

<textarea cols=20 rows=20>
<font color=yellow>Hello</font>
<font color=red>Hello</font>
</textarea>

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks for any help. Clarissa

 

[taylorantone]

I'm not sure what it is that you're trying to accomplish, but no html code can be inside the <texarea></textarea> tags, so whatever you're trying to do can't be where it is.

 

[dkdude]

Hi Clarissa,

You can define the color (etc) of a textarea but you cannot have different colors (styles) in one single textarea.

Have a look at this example I wrote just for you:

http://tek-tips.jit.dk/example003/

If you just want to "show" something inside a box then you can use an IFRAME (contaiing a new page) or a DIV (with SPANs, FONTs etc) instead.

Here's a reference on IFRAMEs:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp

Here's a reference on DIVs:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp

Good Luck with your project!

Regards


Jakob

 

[Vragabond]

Like dk-dude said, it seems like you're after the visual aspect of a textarea not it's functionality. Textareas are used as big memo fields for users to write into and post to the next page. Seeing that you want to put content in your textarea suggest you do not need the functionality. Go with divs and style them accordingly.