How does styles in TextArea work?

[yaragalla_mural]

I am interested to know how styles work in textarea. when i am posting a question on this site, I type my text in the text area and i am adding styles to it like making selected text bold and also displaying the same on the html page. how does this work? I mean how to do it? what is the logic behind it? Please explian in simple steps.

[LastMitch]

I am interested to know how styles work in textarea. when i am posting a question on this site, I type my text in the text area and i am adding styles to it like making selected text bold and also displaying the same on the html page. how does this work? I mean how to do it? what is the logic behind it? Please explian in simple steps.

I'm not sure what you are asking? If you want to design how a TextArea then you can just used CSS/HTML to do that. But if you want type stuff on to the TextArea then you need a text editor. The text editor purpose is to type stuff and change the text color, size and font and etc.

[yaragalla_mural]

Is Text editor part of html or a third party component becaus i dont any component such as text editor in html.

[LastMitch]

Is Text editor part of html or a third party component becaus i dont any component such as text editor in html.

It looks like this:

http://ckeditor.com/demo

Here is a list of other Text Editor:

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/design/10-best-wysiwyg-text-and-html-editors-for-your-next-project/