use styling like span in textarea

Question

I am trying to have a textarea that can have some simple styling like spans in a paragraph. But the problem is that no html tags are allowed in textarea. So what should I do to have a textarea that can have some simple styling like coloring a sentence?

Answer 1

Use some RichText editor controls. There are many free ones available.

http://ckeditor.com/

http://www.tinymce.com/

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1) http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors

2) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/20-excellent-free-rich-text-editors/