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I am hoping to build an IDE in javascript that behaves much like gmail except the style will change automatically based on what they type as they type. The logic for this isnt where im struggling. Its how gmail achieves the ability to edit in a rich edit format in html. As far as I know the textarea control does not work this way, so how do they fake this functionality?
Google for “content editable”
Try to press F7 in Firefox end edit HTML page directly 🙂
Gmail uses Frame inside a page with contenteditable=”true”.
See also Google Web Toolkit:
http://code.google.com/docreader/#p=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5&s=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5&t=DevGuideWidgetGallery
There is RichTextArea widget.