Rendering HTML inside textarea

Question

I need to be able to render some HTML tags inside a textarea (namely , , , ) but textareas only interpret their content as text. Is

Answer 1

With an editable div you can use the method document.execCommand (more details) to easily provide the support for the tags you specified and for some other functionality..

#text {
    width : 500px;
	min-height : 100px;
	border : 2px solid;
}

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