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Enhanced textareas

5th February 2003

Via Leonard Lin, a nice demonstration of an enhanced HTML text area (with buttons to add tags) that works in IE, Mozilla and Phoenix. Until recently this had not been possible thanks to a long standing Mozilla bug.

Posted 5th February 2003 at 11:53 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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