Question

I’m implementing a little chat application where I receive messages from a server, which I would like to display to a user. As I’m more of a backend guy, and lacking experience in frontend development, I don’t know which element would be suited best to output the text.

Two options come to my mind:

1. Using a plain div
2. Using a textarea (as far as I understand, this is intended to be used for input).

(Would also be nice if I could somehow fade in the text using JQuery).

Answer 1

• For readonly messages- better use <div>
• otherwise use <textarea>\ textbox(<input type="text"...>).

Fading it is simple, if the element id is foo:

$('#foo').fadeIn();