Thread: Bolding text in a textarea

I'm importing messages and their dates from a database using php and placing into a text area box. Is there anyway that I can make just the dates bold. I tried looking this up but really couldn't find any useful pages except that javascript seemed to be the way to go.

Any help would be great.

You can use iFrame editor with design mode=on.
For textarea so far I know is not possible.

You can use javascript to add CSS classes to parts of the data you are calling. When you call the data to the text area, if you do it properly, you can separate the info by <span>s or <div>s and use JavaScript forced CSS classes to style certain pieces. Thus using font-weight:bold;

instead of textarea you can used fck editor.... this is best option for textarea ...

Originally Posted by slanluc

I'm importing messages and their dates from a database using php and placing into a text area box. Is there anyway that I can make just the dates bold. I tried looking this up but really couldn't find any useful pages except that javascript seemed to be the way to go.

Any help would be great.

making text bold inside a textarea is not possible.. you must use a WYSIWYG editor instead. for example: TinyMCE or CKEditor (formerly FCKEditor)