Is it possible to display bold and non-bold text in a textarea? [duplicate]

Question

I don't want this:

<textarea>The <b>color</b> is black.</textarea>

Instead of the <b> and </b> i want the text "color" to be shown in bold.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

You Can't style the content of a text area separately, you have to use <div>s, or something similar. This may be a duplicate of:

Format text in a <textarea>?

Do you Want Something like this:?

http://jsfiddle.net/mekwall/XNkDx/

$('.editable').each(function(){
    this.contentEditable = true;
});

this allows you to edit the content of a div, and it will still look like a textarea,

Bold Works.

Answer 2

For these cases, avoid use something pure text area, use wysiwyg html editor.

Here are some ideas for you:

ckeditor

niceditor