Rendering HTML inside textarea

Question

I need to be able to render some HTML tags inside a textarea (namely , , , ) but textareas only interpret their content as text. Is

Answer 1

This is not possible to do with a textarea. What you are looking for is an content editable div, which is very easily done:

jsFiddle

div.editable {
    width: 300px;
    height: 200px;
    border: 1px solid #ccc;
    padding: 5px;
}

strong {
  font-weight: bold;
}

This is the first line.

See, how the text fits here, also if
there is a linebreak at the end?

It works nicely.



Great.