How to make selected text bold/italic/underlined in javascript?

Question

I\'m trying to work on a webpage that allows users to write their own notes for a school project, and my idea was to let them bold/italicize/underline their text using butto

Answer 1

Textarea does not allow such things. I would suggest you to use something like ckeditor. It will do the job for you neatly. But if you still want to do it yourself, you need to use a div with contenteditable tag.

Good Luck !