Contenteditable div with bold option

Question

I want to make contenteditable div with bold and italic options to display content in another div on keyup with the same options. I managed to display text, but not options. Please help

html:

<button onclick="document.execCommand('bold');">B</button>
<button onclick="document.execCommand('italic');">I</button>
<div id="textarea" contenteditable></div>
<div id="textarea-show"></div>

jquery:

$('#textarea').keyup(function() {
  $('#textarea-show').html($(this).text());
});

css:

#textarea { background-color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  color: #555;
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 34px;
  width: 450px;
}

  #textarea-show{font-size: 2rem;
  color:#666;
  height:50px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  width: 450px;
}

example:https://jsfiddle.net/gqmLtct7/1/

Answer 1

You can add two classes, one let's say bold and the other italic, style them and toogle them on click of the buttons to activate/deactivate the bold/italic (You can run the code snippet below or you can also find the updated jsfiddle here):

UPDATE

After the OP's comment, as he wanted to add the bold and italic only to selected text, I've updated my answer a little bit.

The updated jsfiddle.

And the updated code:

$('#textarea').keyup(function() {
  $('#textarea-show').html($(this).text());
});

$('#bold_btn').on('click', function() {
  //$('#textarea, #textarea-show').toggleClass('bold');
  document.execCommand('bold');
  var text = document.getElementById('textarea').innerHTML;
  $('#textarea-show').html(text);
});
$('#italic_btn').on('click', function() {
  //$('#textarea, #textarea-show').toggleClass('italic');
  document.execCommand('italic');
  var text = document.getElementById('textarea').innerHTML;
  $('#textarea-show').html(text);
});

#textarea {
  background-color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  color: #555;
  font-size: 14px;
  height: 34px;
  width: 450px;
}
#textarea-show {
  font-size: 2rem;
  color: #666;
  height: 50px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  width: 450px;
}

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button id='bold_btn'>B</button>
<button id='italic_btn'>I</button>
<div id="textarea" contenteditable></div>
<div id="textarea-show"></div>