How can I add rich text to a text area

Is there a way to set part of the text of the textarea with style. For example if i have a text area with this value:

Hi, how are you

I'd want this :

hi how are you

Setting the words that I want in bold and not all the values wrote in the text area. I would like开发者_高级运维 do it with jQuery maybe a plugin or something.

My text area:

<textarea id="txtMessageFields" cols="20" rows="2"></textarea>

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You can use a WYSIWYG HTML editor for this purpose, like CKEditor or TinyMCE.

For example, with CKEditor's jQuery interface this is as easy as:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/ckeditor/adapters/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
     $(document.ready(function () {
         $('#txtMessageFields').ckeditor();
     });
</script>

from CKEditor jQuery Adapter Guide

Take a look at the configuration options to only enable the functionalities you need.

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Try THIS its what you want. See the demo here

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A <textarea> element can only hold plain text:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/textarea

As far as I know, all JavaScript WYSIWYG editors use a regular DOM node (an iframe or a div) and use regular HTML/CSS to get visual styles. You could write some code to dynamically replace your textarea but I assume it's a form field in the first place because it needs to be editable. If so, I suggest you pick a third-party editor. Here's quite a comprehensive list:

• http://geniisoft.com/showcase.nsf/WebEditors

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As wrote bazmegakapa, you must use a WYSIWYG editor. From my experience, the best is TinyMCE, which includes a special package if you use jQuery (TinyMCE jQuery package).