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What are the options for something that will let users make text bold/italic/underline/etc as they are writing in a textarea and work in all browsers?

+3  A: 

Give a look to FKCEditor, I always recommend it...

CMS
the newer CKEditor is a VERY much improved implementation. clean and very modular .. and the code is waaaay more approachable than FCK ever was
Scott Evernden
+1  A: 

I've used InnovaStudio WYSIWYG. Pretty extensible and cheap.

Robert Sweeney
+2  A: 

I favor the Rich Text Editor in the YUI

+4  A: 

I always liked TinyMCE http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/

Azder
+1 extremely easy to use if you're content with the default configuration, and the only difficult part of using a custom one is reading through all the options.
Michael Borgwardt
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FCKEditor is a popular choice, although it's incredibly bloated. There's a nice simple example in jQuery jQuery Plugins

I wrote my own in the end as I wanted to customise the editor quite a lot. It's not too difficult to do and typically involves popping an iframe on the page, setting the contenteditable to be true and then using a simple javascript command to update the html of the iframe.

Sohnee