Highlight bad words in textarea in php

Hi,

You are going to have to do it with javascript as you cannot add markup within a text area without it becoming part of the text itself.

The example library you linked to does not work on my browser.

An interesting example approach to this is here: https://codepen.io/lonekorean/pen/gaLEMR

You may be better changing the UI so that the user sees the block of text with words highlighted that are bad in a normal HTML panel, with the text area below. A little bit like how CI forum, when previewing a post, has the preview above and the text area below again.

Best wishes,

Paul.

Thanks for the reply PaulD I will look into it over weekend.

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