If you're looking for formatting in an actual textarea (not a rich editor/iframe), look no further than markItUp!:
http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/home/ If you want more full-fledged wysiwyg editing, there a quite a few more options: jwysiwyg http://code.google.com/p/jwysiwyg/ WYMEditor http://www.wymeditor.org/ TinyMCE (not jQuery based, but works with jQuery) http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ Also, you can search the plugin repository: http://plugins.jquery.com/search/node/wysiwyg+type%3Aproject_project - Richard On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:09 PM, kgosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I'm looking for a jQuery plug-in that will help with formatting text > in a textarea. Something like Wordpress' or Gdoc's formatting bar. > > Basically I want to be able to bold/italicize/etc. text for users > without them having to understand HTML. > > Any direction to an existing plug-in would be greatly appreciated! >