How can i use diferent text styles in a textarea object?

[mae]

How can i write words in a textarea with diferent styles, i mean, bold, italic, diferent sizes. It's posible with javascript?. Can i do that in IE and NT? <br>I want to add diferent buttons to the form, so when a user push a button with the bold label (for example) he writes in the textarea with bold, and that's way&nbsp;&nbsp;with diferent options to write.<br>

 

[rycamor]

The closest you can get right now is to use CSS stylesheet options to control the text appearance of the WHOLE text box for version 4+ browsers. This works more completely in IE5 than in the other browsers. I don't think there is any way to control the appearance of individual selections of text inside the box, though. It's all or nothing.<br><br>The good news is CSS styles can easily be controlled with button clicks. Dreamweaver has excellent support for this in the Change Property behavior.

 

[theEclipse]

rycamor is right. you can change the appearance of the text in the textarea as a whole, but not a piece at a time. <p>theEclipse<br><a href=mailto:eclipse_web@hotmail.com>eclipse_web@hotmail.com</a><br><a href=robacarp.webjump.com>robacarp.webjump.com</a><br>**-Trying to build a documentation of a Javascript DOM, crossbrowser, of course. E-mail me if you know of any little known events and/or methods, etc.

 

[mae]

well, if i can´t change a piece of the textarea, how can i simulate a little word process in a site?. I want implement, on my page, a little box to the user can write a text using bold, italic, and two diferent text sizes and then that text is saved in a database and i don´t want the user has to use the labels like 'b', 'i' and so on. How can do that? Please is important<b>!</b>

 

[jaredn]

go to <A HREF="

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http://webfx.eae.net</A><br>he

has created a rich text editing component

 

[mae]

thank's is helpful, but this example doesn´t work in NS, and i need work in both navigators. do you know another site that have demos about this, working in IE and NS??

 

[rycamor]

Your best bet might be to look for a Java applet that can do rich text. I will look, but please let me know if you find one, because I would find it interesting.<br><br>Another more difficult way would be to use a DHTML layer and capture key behaviors with Javascript, then write HTML into the layer, but that seems like going to Jupiter to get to the moon.