Can I embed HTML formatting inside of a <textarea> tag?

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If I have a textarea block like so...

.. text area content ...
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<p>You are correct, it cannot be done.</p>

<p>According to MDN, "character data" is the only permitted content for a <code><textarea></code>.</p>

<p>As other answers have described, what you are looking for is a WYSIWYG editor, like CKEditor, TinyMCE, or Kendo's Editor.</p>

<p>This is beside the point, but interestingly, MDN lists some examples on their HTMLTextAreaElement page on how to enable dynamic adding of HTML tags around text in a <code><textarea></code> and how to enable autogrow behavior for a <code><textarea></code>.</p>
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<p>You can do this (convert the "special" characters):</p>

<pre><code><textarea name="myTextArea" cols="100" rows="20" readonly=readonly>
&lt;b&gt;Hello how are you today?&lt;/b&gt;
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<p>You can try this too its simple and if you are using asp.net use lable contron in text area add this as </p>

<pre><code>Text="&lt; stonename &gt;" 
"&lt";stonename"&gt";
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<p>You need to make a WYSIWYG Editor instead.</p>

<p>Here's a great one.</p>
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<p>You can not do that inside textarea but what you can do...you can use p tag and parse information to tag by JQuery. Something like this: </p>

<pre><code>    var stringviewinfo ="aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<br>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<br>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<b>aaaaaaaa</b>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<br>aaaaaaaaaaa<font color=\"red\">AAAA</font>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<b>aaaaaaaaaaaaa<b>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<br>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa</br>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa";      
$('#viewinfo').html(stringviewinfo);
<p style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="viewinfo"></p>
</code></pre>

<p>I hope this will help. </p>
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<p>There is a very simple way you can achieve that.</p>
<p><strong>First: Customize the <code><textarea></code> to accept and save special chars to DB</strong></p>
<p><code><textarea contenteditable="true" class="form-control" name="setting[header_code]"><?php echo set_value('setting[header_code]', html_entity_decode($item->header_code)) ?></textarea></code></p>
<p><strong>Second: extract and echo the saved data from DB</strong></p>
<p><code><?php echo html_entity_decode(config(nl2br('header_code')));?></code></p>
<p>Hope it can help you.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
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