176956 - Allow WYSIWYG entry of HTML into form text (e.g., textarea)

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 130796

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[David A. Wheeler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408

MANY sites allow users to type in HTML-formatted text into
their form data (e.g., into textarea's).  This is particularly common
for discussion forums, for example.  However, this requires
users to know HTML syntax.  Ordinary users shouldn't need to learn
HTML just to get capabilities such as
italics, bold, and links, especially since Mozilla already
includes a capable WYSIWYG editor (Composer) of HTML data.

HTML forms that allow entry of text data (e.g., textarea)
should support an optional tagname that specifies that, if the browser
supports it (e.g., Mozilla), it should provide a WYSIWYG entry.

I'm not sure what the tag name should be.  Perhaps "format"?
For generality, there should be a parameter, perhaps a MIME type.
Thus, an example might be:

<textarea name="comments" rows="10" cols="70" format="text/html">
</textarea>

Again, since Mozilla already includes Composer, this might be fairly
easy to do, and it would be an OBVIOUS advantage of Mozilla over other
browsers.  What's more, websites which took advantage of this capability
would be easier to use with the latest version of Mozilla, but would
still be compatible with other browsers.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Hmm, perhaps something like the formating bar in hotmail.. that could be pretty
cool, even if you know HTML it is much easier to use the bar, and much more
intuitive.

Comment 2

[Vladimir Ermakov]

Oh, found that dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130796 ***

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

v dup