I need to be able to render some HTML tags inside a textarea (namely <strong>, <i>, <u>, <a>) but textareas only interpret their content as text. Is there an easy way of doing it without relying on external libraries/plugins...

I would like to have some functionality by which if I write  <textarea maxlength="50"></textarea> <textarea maxlength="150"></textarea> <textarea maxlength="250"></textarea>   it will auto...

I have a textbox and a link button.  When I write some text, then select some of them and then click the link button, selected text from textbox must be show with a messagebox.   How can I do it?    When I click the submit button for textbox below,...

I’m editing a <textarea> with JavaScript. The problem is that when I make line breaks in it, they won’t display. How can I do this?  I’m getting the value to write a function, but it won’t give line breaks....

Here is an example:    $(function() {   $('#test').change(function() {     $('#length').html($('#test').val().length)   }) }) <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></...

I would like to create a simple function that adds text into a text area at the user's cursor position. It needs to be a clean function. Just the basics. I can figure out the rest....

I would like to be able to limit the number of characters in a textarea. The method I am using works great in Google Chrome, but is slow in Firefox, and doesn't work in IE.  Javascript:  function len(){   t_v=textarea.value;   if(t_v.length>...

I've had a look round the web for solutions, and there are some, but they all seem to split code into supporting IE and Firefox. I was wondering if there's a more elegant way which would work on every browser, to insert some text at the cur...

I have a text area where each line contains Integer value like follows        1234       4321      123445   I want to check if the user has really enetered valid values and not some funny values like follows        1234,       987l;   For that I need...

I'm writing a mobile web application where scrollbars are not displayed on the device's browser.  Due to this, I'm trying to dynamically modify the height of the textarea to make it bigger, however I don't know of any way to actually...