inserting HTML into a textarea

I need to be able to have a user entering text into a textarea, and be able to insert html tags via clicking a button (like paragraph and break tags) for formating. Then the data needs to be displayed and inserted to a data base for later display. I have the collect and insert deal down but need help with the inserting html code into text area and then keeping its integraty for the display and insert and later redisplay.

please help,
jel3

[stuart]

Originally posted by jel3@27-May 03, 03:51 PM
I need to be able to have a user entering text into a textarea, and be able to insert html tags via clicking a button (like paragraph and break tags) for formating. Then the data needs to be displayed and inserted to a data base for later display. I have the collect and insert deal down but need help with the inserting html code into text area and then keeping its integraty for the display and insert and later redisplay.

please help,
jel3

I have seen many variations of this type of thing, I suggest you take a look at some of the open source projects on sourceforge there you will find small project that do the basic bold, italic, underline etc, but you may also get fully fledged wysiwyg/html editors that use textarea boxes.

I can't remember the names of these project right now, but a search on the site will surely give you some leads