I'm importing messages and their dates from a database using php and placing into a text area box. Is there anyway that I can make just the dates bold. I tried looking this up but really couldn't find any useful pages except that javascript seemed to be the way to go.

Any help would be great.

I'm pretty sure you can only have one style for the whole textarea text.

Yes, normal textareas do not provide controls to format specific text. The only thing you can do is apply styling to the entire thing, as funkdaddu pointed out.

To get the kind of thing you want, you'll need to create a rich text, WYSIWYG-like area (much like the editors we use on this forum). It can be quite complicated (different browsers have to be taken into account, and some browsers don't support it). And when the form is submitted, the content will be HTML so you'll have to filter all of that out etc.

I honestly don't think it's worth the trouble just to bold a date. Why not just extract the date from the content and place it in a separate field where you can apply some styling?

yeah sounds like it's not worth it, though it would have been nice.

Thanx for the advice.