Italics within a textarea

[Robert Moskowitz]

I want to italicize on word in a textarea.  Something like:

<style>
  .copy-area {
    margin-bottom: 2em;
  }
  .copy-area textarea {
  	border:1px solid black;
    resize:none;
    font-size:inherit;
    padding-top:1em;
	margin-left:3em;
    width:20em;
    height:2em;
    overflow-y:hidden;
    overflow-x:auto;
	font-family: verdana,tahoma,'Bitstream Vera Sans','DejaVu Sans',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
  }
</style>

<div class="copy-area">
<textarea id="box44"
	style="width:25em;height:2em;">
http://<i>fqdn</i>/roundcubemail/installer
</textarea>
</div>

The italics tag worked fine in the old way I did things, but not surprisingly it does not work in my proper CSS style.

So how do I change just a part of my text's font to italics?

And, yes, this is the 44th textarea in this one howto and still more to convert.

 

[Robert Moskowitz]

My googling this has not only come up empty, but statements that it <b>Cannot</b> be done.

I will work out an alternative approach, but any pointers on this is greatly appreciated!

 

[dsonesuk]

I think you will find it can only done as you already trìed or using similar  formatting code as bbcode, which used here when posting topics [ i ]italics[/ i ] [ b ]Bold[/ b ] (without spaces)

[Robert Moskowitz]

The square brackets, fqdn does not work in the textarea.

It would be nice, but I think the key here is that the is a textarea tag and all text is treated, well as text!

Possibly some javascripting could stuff some replacement content into the textarea.

 

[dsonesuk]

It wouldn't, you require the bbcode software to be installed first.