Question

I just need the textarea’s html markup in the DOM to reflect the value of the user input. (Edit: the user types something and it shows up when you hit “inspect element”)

A contenteditable div was working fine but now it appears I’ll need a textarea after all. Anybody know a way of doing this with javascript or html5?

Answer 1

I guess something like this will help you.
Its using pure javascript and html5 data-value attribute:

  <textarea id="myTextArea" onkeyup="this.setAttribute('data-value', this.value);" data-value=""></textarea>