Change the Color Of Certain Words In Textarea using Jquery ?

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Change the Color Of Certain Words In Textarea using Jquery ?

How to Change the Color Of Certain Words In Textarea using Jquery ?

For instance, i have a textarea <textarea id="txt"> </textarea>

When i type into the textarea, certain words like "is, a , was ..." should be colored or highlighted.

The aim is to create a ultra simple HTML syntax highlighter for my project that's all !

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This is completely impossible.

You need to use a content-editable <iframe>.

The reason it's not possible is that the <TEXTAREA> has no ability, in any browser, to support formatting. You need a differnt kind of element, so that words can be wrapped in elements, formatting the text.

SLaks 2010-06-07 14:05:34

Edited answer to explain *why* it's not possible.

Ian Boyd 2010-06-07 14:17:06

But some editors like lwrte use textarea to color text

Aakash Chakravarthy 2010-06-07 14:56:58

They use ContentEditable elements, not `<textarea>`s.

SLaks 2010-06-07 15:10:34

Then how to do with that ?

Aakash Chakravarthy 2010-06-07 16:21:03

@Aakash: Have a look at the sources of [JS Bin](http://jsbin.com/) at http://github.com/remy/jsbin and see what it uses for coloring the HTML.

Marcel Korpel 2010-06-07 16:26:03

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