Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 08/27/05 16:41

Toby Inkster wrote:
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> TEXTAREA can't contain bold text, text of varying sizes, italics, etc.
> contentEditable allows you to create a little WYSIWYG editor within a page.
> It's not much good on the public internet, but is fairly handy for
> intranets, and for the admin sections of public sites (e.g. within a CMS
> tool).
>
> The OP wants to look at document.getElementById('foo').innerHTML I think.
>
New one on me, but I have not invested much time on the MSIE only
elements and attributes, I write for the web. Problems I see...

1: MSIE only
2: Requires JavaScript
3: Can create really horrific tag soup with cut'n paste operations /but
then again, this is MSIE, MS is use to parsing junk!/ ;-)

If you want to pass formatted data I ould think something like a Java
app would be better with wider support.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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