How to Use HTML Inside a Text Area Box

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Eric White and today we're going to talk about how to put HTML into a text area box. Now I've gone ahead and opened up some forms here and here's my text area box. So I'm going to go ahead, and first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to put a bold tag in because I like bold text and I'm going to put my text in and say "my favorite smiley." And I'm going to close my bold, and I'm going to put a couple of page break, or line breaks in. And then I'm going to insert a URL for my image. Now, I took the liberty of already adding the image tag. So here's the opening of the image tag and here's where it closes and now just hit preview, and there's "my favorite smiley!" And on these particular forms, they don't allow for page breaks, so that's why you can see my page break here. Also, some forms don't allow for HTML at all. So if you go to try to do some HTML and it just looks like this, then you're going to need to contract, contact the administrator of the form set and ask if they can enable HTML. And that's how you use HTML in a text area box."