Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 12/21/06 08:51

Hello,

ferd wrote:

> I've read a few posts about how textareas can't have links or other
> rendered elements, so I'm wondering how gmail does it and if it's
> something I can cook up at home. specifically, I'd like to allow the
> user to type in an entry, very much like typing in this post, and then
> highlight a chunk of text, click a button and assign a hyperlink to it.

This is not done using a TEXTAREA. It uses a feature that some browsers
support (IE, FF, recent versions of Safari and Opera). Basicly any element
can be turned into an 'HTML WYSIWYG editor' by setting a property
(contentEditable) with JavaScript.

> Is this something I can do?

There are a lot of ready-to-use editors. I'd suggest that you look for one
that can be easily customized. Throw out all options but the link feature.
I know that this can be done with HTMLArea (which has been discontinued).


HTH

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Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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