tags inside textarea

is there a way of making tags inside the textarea tag be interpreted
as html code instead of just being printed out?


obscurr

"Obscurr" <obscurr (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

is there a way of making tags inside the textarea tag be interpreted
as html code instead of just being printed out?

Not really. The content model for the textarea element is processed
character data(#PCDATA) which means that it is not supposed to have any
elements inside it. Entities and character references willl be handled as
usual, but they aren't really needed unless the text includes either
</textarea> or </> inwhich case you should use the &gt; entity so that it is
treated as text and not an end tag. </> is the short end tag in SGML and so
is equivalent to </textarea> in this context for those browsers that
actually treat HTML as SGML. If you want formatted text, you'll need
another way of handling it.