Setting TextBoxes To HTML?

[Digitalosophy]

Hey,

I have an asp recordset which loads into a multiline textbox. Can i set the textbox to be html compatable like in flash? for example



<textarea name="news" cols="25" rows="6"><u><% response.write r("newsDate") & ":" %></u>
<% response.write r("newsBody") %></textarea>


This works fine except when you view the textbox "<u>" shows up and what I wanted to be underlined isn't. Is this possible?

Thanks

[Jubba]

i don't think its possible.

[Digitalosophy]

yea neither do i. hmmm guess maybe make the textboxes in flash? than i guess i can render to html text and just add the attributes into the db? dang not sure if that will work. whut do you think i should do jubba. i'm stuck with asp

[Jubba]

why do you want to display the text in a textbox?

[Jubba]

an alternative may be scrolling div tags...

http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26522&highlight=div

[Digitalosophy]

well you know whats funny, i am using IFrames in the same page for the content. I guess your right, why not just use more of them. Thanks jubba

[Jubba]

np :)

[Digitalosophy]

yea man much better solution, solved all my problems. yeah for IFRAMES