changing colors of test in textarea

[fnbcprog]

Alright I am having some issues here with a textarea.

What I want to do is have a user enter some text into a text area and when the users submits it ceck to see if certain characters are present such as: &,",~,`,!,*

If they are within the note string then I want to color them bold red and return to that same page and print them within the text box.

Any ideas??????

[eoghain]

Can't be done.

I don't believe that the text area control can have markedup text inside it.

You'll proably have to do what forums like this do when you 'preview' your post. Write out the bad text entry markedup with HTML above the text box.

[fnbcprog]

that what I was thinking....thankx for the help!!