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'm currently working on an internal sales application for the company I work for, and I've got a form that allows the user to change the delivery address.  Now I think it would look much nicer, if the textarea I'm using for the main ad...

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 am working on an in-browser editor within a textarea.  I have started looking for some information on dealing with textarea selection and found this jQuery plugin, fieldSelection that does some simple manipulation.    However, it doesn't expl...

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>...

An HTML text input has an attribute called "maxlength", implemented by browsers, which if set blocks user input after a certain number of characters.  An HTML textarea element, on the other hand, does not have this attribute. My goal is to...