I am pretty sure the answer is no -- cannot do it with a textarea. From the MDN docs: The HTML <textarea> element represents a multi-line plain-text editing control. Is not possible with. Use …

I need to be able to render some HTML tags inside a textarea (namely <strong>, <i>, <u>, <a>) but textareas only interpret their content as text. Is there an easy way of doing it without relying …

Mar 12, 2014 · This uses a contenteditable div element which you can format to look like an input box and will accept pasted HTML, and a hidden textarea#foo which will be populated with the …

Nov 14, 2024 · To add text formatting (such as bold, italic, or inserting special characters) to a <textarea> using JavaScript, you can manipulate the selected text or insert formatted text at …

A text area can hold an unlimited number of characters, and the text renders in a fixed-width font (usually Courier). The size of a text area is specified by the cols and rows attributes (or with …

Apr 10, 2025 · The <textarea> HTML element represents a multi-line plain-text editing control, useful when you want to allow users to enter a sizeable amount of free-form text, for example …

Jan 13, 2025 · All we have are <textarea>, <pre> and <code> elements in the HTML, new lines of CSS that stack them together, and a syntax highlighting library to format what’s entered. And …

Feb 28, 2009 · It is possible to use scripts to add the text for HTML tags within a textarea, however browsers will not render it as HTML, only as text. What I want is for the tags to be …

Feb 2, 2006 · You can’t put HTML content within a text area because it’s displayed as-is (e.g. HTML source). What you can do is to create a div of a fixed size with the overflow set to …

Is there a way I can force the JavaScript function to insert <br> tags at the end of each row of my textarea, or is there an easier way to do this? JavaScript code: var element = …