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Asked: 2026-05-24T04:15:04+00:00

Is there a way that a user can enter a URL in a textarea

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Is there a way that a user can enter a URL in a textarea and have the link actually display and work as a hyperlink?

For example: 

<textarea name="Miscell" cols="110" rows="5" wrap="Virtual" class="noborder"> 
          blah blah blah= 
          <a href="http://www.googel.com/">Google</a> 
          blah blah blah
</textarea>

No link is displayed: what can I do?

I’m not creating that site: I’m just trying to change it using Firebug.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can’t place any ‘Active Link’ inside a text area. A text area is designed to displaying text only content. Instead of that you can use div and using some css make div as a text area.

    Eg: (Not my code)

        <style type="text/css">
#box {
width: 400px;
margin: 0 auto;
overflow: auto;
border: 1px solid #0f0;
padding: 2px;
text-align: justify;
background: transparent;
}
</style>

HTML...
<body>

<div id="box">
<h4>My Links</h4>
<a href=">• Paragraph One Here.</p><p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>
<p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>
<p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>
<p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>
<p><a href="URL path to external link" title="Mouseover Description">Link Text Description</a></p>
</div>
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