highlight, italic, bold...for text

[thebay]

I want implement somthing for text input.

In order the customer can inpiut html tags, such as bold, italic easily, I want to show a tool bar on top of the text area, then users just input the sentence, if they want "bold" certain word, just highlight it, then click the icon of "bold", then the sentence will be added <bold> the word</vold> automatically..

Anyone has an idea how I implement such function?

[snaack]

There is one very easy option, but the problem is it only works in IE5+ 🙁 If you want to try it, just create a layer with the text contentEditable within the <div>-tag.

This instantiates the built-in HTML-editor of Internet Expl0der..

YOu can control this editor with a bunch of JavaScirp-commands, see here: MSDN libray

But, as I said, this only works in IE.. If you want such a thing to work in any other browser you should write a HTML-editor in JavaScript.

[FrozNic]

i have an extremely well written script that lets you edit nearly every aspect of text in a text field: bold, itallics, alignment, add pics, add tables, hr tags, fonts, font size, font color, font background color. all javascript based... but sadly, isn't compatible with ns .. which i don't care much about anyway lol... if u'd like it lemme know, i'll let u use it if u want.