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

I have the same problem but in reverse, and the following solution. I want to put html from a div in a textarea (so I can edit some reactions on my website; I want to have the textarea in the same location.)

To put the content of this div in a textarea I use:

var content = $('#msg500').text();
$('#msg500').wrapInner('<textarea>' + content + '</textarea>');

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="msg500">here some <strong>html</strong> <i>tags</i>.</div>