What ever you want to be displayed in side textarea should be given in between the textarea's open and close tags as shown in the example. Tutorials, references, and examples are constantly reviewed to avoid errors, but we cannot warrant full correctness of all content. Hmmmm, I am sure I have seen this done before, like in the admin area of vBulletin for editing templates. The readonly attribute can be set to keep a user from using a text area until some other condition has been met (like selecting a checkbox, etc.). I kept this chapter simple, short and easy so hopefully you will not get any problem in understanding this chapter. There are many jQuery plugins are available for adding WYSIWYG editor to textarea. what i'm trying to do is get the contents of the textarea, which the id is 'reply'. If you want to show source HTML code in some non-input control, it will be shown as rendered HTML. The readonly attribute can be set to keep a user from using a text area until some other condition has been met (like selecting a checkbox, etc.). The tag is used to define a piece of computer code. Oh,