You can imitate that behaviour using for example an iframe and a document (contenteditable to make user think it´s a textarea) in it. Check out online email editors and to see how it works Allard -----Mensagem original----- De: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu [mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu]Em nome de judah Enviada em: terça-feira, 12 de abril de 2005 06:23 Para: [JavaScript List] Assunto: Re: [Javascript] textarea properties afaik it's not possible. otherwise there wouldn't be things like this http://xinha.python-hosting.com/ best judah Chris Harrison wrote: Hi, Is it possible to bolded & italice certain letters, phrases, etc in a regular textarea? Thanks, Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Javascript mailing list Javascript at LaTech.edu https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.5 - Release Date: 4/7/2005 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20050412/84e79546/attachment.htm>