I have seen a variety of sites that use a rich text editing box and have no idea how to accomplish this task. I have veiwed the source on many of these sites, and not surprisingly they are not easy to read as the source is generally compressed.

I was wondering a few things about these boxes.

First how would you accomplish this. I have though about using hidden DIVs that accept the input (much like facebook uses for PM recipient boxes) But I am not sure that this would be a valid solution and also would require extensive amounts of scripting.

The second question that I have, is there any way to accomplish this task using standards compliant methods?

Thanks in advance.

Some use Flash, most use a mix of PHP and Javascripting ... called AJAX.

You can find some examples with:
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or,
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Those are free to use and mess-around with.

thanks for your reply.