Prettify code inside a textarea

Question

i have found this project

http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/

i've tested it and it works fine

but it only works with (<pre>)

i want use it with (<textarea>)

but if i replace <pre> to <textarea>

it's not working !!

So how to use this script with textarea?

Answer 1

Have you tried codemirror?

It does what you want: prettify code in textarea.