add a cursor to a div so you can type?

[shadiadiph]

Is there an easy way to add a caret (cursor) to a div so you can type?

 

without using textarea as an input

[ignace]

contenteditable="true"

[shadiadiph]

thanks for the reply but i am a bit dumb when it comes to javascript

 

<div id="tesxareatest" name="textareatest" contenteditable="true"></div>

 

 

doesn't work 

[ignace]

Take a look at http://html5demos.com/contenteditable. At the very least they'll have the necessary JS to edit your post. I personally tried on IE7 through 9 and FF.

[shadiadiph]

thanks seems to work but not sure if it is what i wanted as i am trying to format the text bold underlined etc problem is when I add a <b> tag to the innerHTML it seems to automatically close it so the font type doesn't change??

[ignace]

Euhm it seems like you are looking for a WYSIWYG editor, try: http://ckeditor.com/. You can use the onclick event of the div to change the div into an editor. CKEditor works on both textarea as normal html elements.