[Javascript] RE: formatting textarea

[Peter Brunone]

Alan,

    If you want some hints and examples, I suggest looking at Yahoo!  Mail
and/or www.richtextbox.com .  They aren't going to be cross-browser pretty,
but then no formatting solution is.

Cheers,

Peter
  -----Original Message-----
  From: javascript-admin at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-admin at LaTech.edu]On
Behalf Of Alan Easton
  Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 9:11 AM
  To: 'Java-List'
  Subject: formatting textarea


  Hello People,

  I am wanting users to format text in a textarea clientside before
submitting it, namely just bold, italics, underline, line and paragraph
breaks. I don't want them to have to know any html tags to do this.

  Is there a way, using Javascript, they could just highlight the text in
the textarea they wished formatting, and pressed the appropriate button
which would insert the tags at the beginning and end of the highlighted
text.

  Or is there a better alternative to accomplishing this than the way I am
currently thinking.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Many Thanks,

  Alan...

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