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Try using<br />
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&lt;textarea&gt;&lt;pre&gt; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- Values Here - &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;<br />
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values Here would be where all the html you wnat to display in the textbox goes
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Try using

<textarea><pre>      - Values Here -      </pre></textarea>

values Here would be where all the html you wnat to display in the textbox goes

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look at this link,<br />
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<a href="http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/" rel="ugc">http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/</a>
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look at this link,

http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/ [http://www.interactivetools.com/products/htmlarea/]

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Cheers Dorward...works like a charm!<br />
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-BIZ-
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Cheers Dorward...works like a charm!

-BIZ-

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I was thinking of using a &lt;textarea&gt; tag to do this:<br />
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e.g.<br />
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&lt;textarea&gt;&lt;b&gt;example sentence blah blah blah&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;hr&gt;&lt;/textarea<wbr />&gt;<br />
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But i found doing this doesn't translate any of the html tags in between the &lt;textarea&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;, and just treats them as normal text. &nbsp;Is there anyway of getting round this or has anyone got any alternate ideas?<br />
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Basically it's for an online diary replies section, where replies are read from the database and fed into this textarea. 
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I was thinking of using a <textarea> tag to do this:

e.g.

<textarea><b>example sentence blah blah blah</b><br><hr></textarea>

But i found doing this doesn't translate any of the html tags in between the <textarea></textarea>, and just treats them as normal text.  Is there anyway of getting round this or has anyone got any alternate ideas?

Basically it's for an online diary replies section, where replies are read from the database and fed into this textarea. 

Outputting html code to a &lt;textarea&gt; tag

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the main markup language for creating web pages and other information to be displayed in a web browser, providing both the structure and content for what is sent from a web server through the use of tags. The current implementation of the HTML specification is HTML5.

Outputting html code to a &lt;textarea&gt; tag

Outputting html code to a <textarea> tag