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I am intended to develop a rich input textarea similar to Google mail. Any ideal or resource to share? Thanks in advance!

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I am not sure what google uses, but I've used FCKEditor and it worked out great.

cmsjr
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My suggestion is to use TinyMCE it is a great Rich Text Box. Yahoo also has a really great Rich Text Editor.

Nick Berardi
+1. I second that.
BBetances
Thanks for the recommendation Nick, I am going to try this now...
Magnus Smith
And the verdict is......it's brilliant! Very easy to use, and works with Macs too, which helps my colleagues out a great deal.
Magnus Smith
I should say, it was TinyMCE I was using.
Magnus Smith
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These are not textareas, btw - they are IFRAMEs holding full HTML managed by the editor code. I also recommend FCKeditor - very configurable and easily integrated. You can write your code using textareas, make a javascript call and those textareas go hidden and the IFRAME gets injected in place. Upon submit the html gets copied back in the textarea. so really don't need to do much...

Scott Evernden