Javascript - Change font color of certain text in textarea

Question

Is there any JS function that can change the color of certain text in a textarea?

For example, blar blar {blar} blar, {blar}, including { }, will be in blue. Other w

Answer 1

wysiwig-editors are using iframes instead of textareas. Textareas are very little customizable, since what you're after is changing part of the content. You can't add tags inside a textarea, which makes it impossible to only change part of the text.

If you look at the editor here in SO, you write normal text inside a textarea, and it is then transformed in the box below it, so you'll see the asterix inside the textbox, but in the box below, it'll transform special characters by regexing them with tags.

If you're using firebug, you can start writing inside the editor, while looking at the HTML in the preview-box.