Textbox of Google Translate (the left textbox- please view my screenshot: http://s970.photobucket.com/albums/ae190/swenteiger7/technology%20screenshot/?action=view¤t=google_translate_textbox_event.png) have a lot of nice effects such as automatic highlight a word, automatically scaled ...
I am currently need to create a textarea so in my web application. I want to know a technology (prefer based on ajax and work well across platforms JSP) or web site tutorials which help me to make a textbox like Google Translate textarea.
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Just to get you started see: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Content_Editable and the links at the bottom of that page.
Basically it's not actually a textbox. It's a regular html element, but is marked as editable so people can type into it. But because it's regular html you can do special effects with it.