Formatting toolbar to a TextArea control in

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I have a TextArea control on my on the form for a webapplication. I want to add a formatting toolbar to it such as bold,italics etc. The control should work on the text selected in the TextArea control.

e.g the toolbar which we get while asking a question in codeproject[^] OR while writing a mail in gmail.

Please help me i want to know how to add this toolbar. Can anyone explain me How to do this?

Posted 20-Oct-10 20:24pm

ishan_48

Updated 21-Mar-18 19:22pm

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Karthik. A 21-Oct-10 22:33pm

If you are looking to learn how to do this, fine. Else if you are looking for something already available, check this out from MS (ajax toolkit) - http://www.asp.net/ajax/ajaxcontroltoolkit/Samples/HTMLEditor/HTMLEditor.aspx

ishan_48 22-Oct-10 1:06am

Thank You. Can you please tell me how do i use it in my code?

Karthik. A 22-Oct-10 17:34pm

I have added a detailed answer to help you understand better...

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Karthik. A · Answer 1 · 2010-10-22T11:34:00

* Go to http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/[^] and download the ajaxcontrol toolkit using the "Download" link

* Extract the downloaded file and this contains another zip file called "AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite". Extract this too.

* Go to the "AjaxControlToolkitSampleSite" folder and look for "HTMLEditor" folder, there you have a number of samples for using this control. Have a look at them

* Add a reference to AjaxControlToolkit.dll in your website to use the example in the folder above. Else follow the steps in the next link to add the toolkit to your toolbox.

* Refer to this page for instructions on how to add it to the toolbox - http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/act.ash[^]

* You should be all set to go!