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How to change color of text in a textarea

I have a textarea and when I type something, for some words the color should change.
For example, if the typed text is next one: He went to the market to buy an apple
The "market" word should become green
The "apple" word should become red
This is my current code:
var str = 'market';
var value = str.includes('market');
if (value == str) {
document.getElementById("text").style.color = "green";
} else {
document.getElementById("text").style.color = "red";
}
<textarea rows="9" cols="100" id="text" onClick="changeText();"></textarea>

Unfortunately, you can't add markup inside a textarea, but here is an idea you could take as a starting approach, it comes from this link. The approach will be based on this:
The basic idea is to carefully position a <div> behind the <textarea>. Then JavaScript will be used to copy any text entered into the <textarea> to the <div>. A bit more JavaScript will make that both elements scroll as one. With everything perfectly aligned, we can add markup inside the <div> to give colors to some particular words, and we going to set text color to transparent on the <textarea>, completing the illusion.
Base Implementation:
// Initialization.
const colorMap = {"apple": "red", "market": "green", "banana": "orange"};
let textArea = document.getElementById("myTextArea");
let customArea = document.querySelector(".custom-area");
let backdrop = document.querySelector(".backdrop");
// Event listeners.
textArea.addEventListener("input", function()
{
customArea.innerHTML = applyColors(textArea.value);
});
textArea.addEventListener("scroll", function()
{
backdrop.scrollTop = textArea.scrollTop;
});
function applyColors(text)
{
let re = new RegExp(Object.keys(colorMap).join("|"), "gi");
return text.replace(re, function(m)
{
let c = colorMap[m.toLowerCase()];
return `<spam style="color:${c}">${m}</spam>`;
});
}
.backdrop, #myTextArea {
font: 12px 'Open Sans', sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 1px;
width: 300px;
height: 100px;
}
#myTextArea {
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
border-radius: 0;
background-color: transparent;
color: transparent;
caret-color: #555555;
z-index: 2;
resize: none;
}
.backdrop {
position: absolute;
z-index: 1;
border: 2px solid transparent;
overflow: auto;
pointer-events: none;
}
.custom-area {
white-space: pre-wrap;
word-wrap: break-word;
}
<div class="container">
<div class="backdrop">
<div class="custom-area">
<!-- Cloned text with colors will go here -->
</div>
</div>
<textarea id="myTextArea"></textarea>
</div>
Note this is just a base approach to understand the underlying idea. But with some work on it, maybe you can get a generalized version. For example, by now, the textarea can't be resizable. But maybe you can detect that event and rezise the backdrop dinamically.

You can style the text in the textarea as a whole, but since a textarea does not have sub-elements such as or you cannot give separate text within that textarea separate styles.
on the other hand if you had a separate div displaying a copy of the text you could in the innerHTML of the div assign
apple
to replace the word apple in the .. but the text in the textarea would remain unchanged.. possibly overlay div on top of the textarea but hidden until text is entered in the textarea. Not certain of the precise code to do that piece or if it would work. but at least it is a viable logic chain that I hope may help you find a solution.

To color a specific word from that text you must wrap that word with a html tag. But textarea doesn't support html tag.
You can do it outside of the textarea field.

Contenteditable height transition: animate after adding (shift+enter) and removing a line of text

It works so far on using the contenteditable attribute on the <div> tag with the autogrow feature of a textbox. Also the height transition of it. It all works good, except for one thing, deleting characters, to be specific, a line, will not animate its height, unlike adding new lines. I have still a little knowledge on CSS.
.autogrow {
border: 1px solid rgb( 0, 0, 0 );
padding: 10px;
}
#keyframes line_insert {
from {
height: 0px;
}
to {
height: 20px;
}
}
.autogrow[contenteditable] > div {
animation-duration: 250ms;
animation-name: line_insert;
}
.autogrow[contenteditable] {
overflow: hidden;
line-height: 20px;
}
<div class="autogrow" contenteditable="true"></div>
When I press Shift + Enter, it doesn't animate either, it does well though while pressing Enter. Just the removing of lines and the Shift + Enter key combination while entering a new line is the problem.
How to make it work? Can it be done using pure CSS? Or adding a javascript function for it?

To avoid these issues, I personally use a solution not based on pure CSS animations / transitions which I found always have problems. For example, in your CSS implementation, there is a bounce back effect if using the Enter too fast (you can slow the animation down to see it better).
Moreover, new lines handling is different between browsers, some will add <div><br></div>, some versions of IE add only <br>, etc.
I've never been able to fix all these problems or found an implementation fixing all of these so I decided to not modify at all the behavior of the contenteditable, let the browser do is magic which works and instead, react to what's happening.
We don't even have to worry about keys events like Shift + Enter or events like deletion, etc., all of these are natively handled by the navigator.
I choose instead to use 2 elements: one for the actual contenteditable and one for the styling of my contenteditable which will be the one having height animations / transitions based on the actual height of the contenteditable.
To do that, I'm monitoring every events that can change the height of a contenteditable and if the height of my styling element is not the same, I'm animating the styling element.
var kAnimationSpeed = 125;
var kPadding = 10;
$('div[contenteditable]').on('blur keyup paste input', function() {
var styleElement = $(this).prev();
var editorHeight = $(this).height();
var styleElementHeight = styleElement.height();
if (editorHeight !== styleElementHeight - kPadding * 2) {
styleElement.stop().animate({ height: editorHeight + kPadding * 2 }, kAnimationSpeed);
}
});
.autogrowWrapper {
position: relative;
}
.autogrow {
border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);
height: 40px; /* line-height + 2 * padding */
}
div[contenteditable] {
outline: none;
line-height : 20px;
position: absolute;
top: 10px; /* padding */
left: 10px; /* padding */
right: 10px; /* padding */
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="autogrowWrapper">
<div class="autogrow"></div>
<div contenteditable="true"></div>
</div>

It's kinda hacky, but it works.
First, modify your CSS
.autogrow {
border: 1px solid rgb( 0, 0, 0 );
padding: 10px;
}
#keyframes line_insert {
from {
height: 0px;
}
to {
height: 20px;
}
}
.autogrow[contenteditable] > div {
animation-duration: 250ms;
animation-name: line_insert;
}
.autogrow[contenteditable] {
overflow: hidden;
line-height: 20px;
}
Then add this jQuery that detects Shift + Enter events and appends a div whenever they occur
$(".autogrow").keydown(function(e){
if (e.keyCode == 13 && e.shiftKey || e.keyCode == 13)
{
$(this).animate({height: $(this).height()+20},200);
$(this).append('<div><br></div>');
}
});
And that should work.
Check fiddle https://jsfiddle.net/wx38rz5L/582/

Create and Display a Div using JQuery without distorting other elements

I am trying to create a div and show a timeout message in there. But it actually distorts other parts of Page. For eg see below. Session Timed out is the div with the message.
Now I don't want this to happen. PFB the JQuery code I am using to create this Div
function ShowSessionTimeOutDiv() {
var styler = document.createElement("div");
styler.setAttribute("style","font-size:15px;width:auto;height:auto;top:50%;left:40%;color:red;");
styler.innerHTML = "<b><i>Session TimedOut, Please refresh the Page</i></b>";
document.body.appendChild(styler);
var currentDiv = $('#GoToRequestControl1_UpdatePanel1').get(0);
currentDiv.parentNode.insertBefore(styler,currentDiv) ;
}
Am I missing something here? The Part in which this div is being displayed is coming from Master Page.

Have you tried the position:fixed styling on it in css, i did that on one of my websites and it didn't distort anything.

A page has a natural flow of its elements based on the default display rules specified by the W3C. When you add a div in between other elements it naturally affects the layout of the page; the positions of the other elements.
In order to drop in a new element without it affecting other elements you have to either reserve space for it, or take it out of the normal page flow.
There are a couple of ways to take an element out of the flow — you can float it, float:left or float:right, which is great, for example, to stack blocks on the left (instead of top-down) and let them wrap to new rows as available width changes. Using a flex layout gives you a lot of control also. But in this case of one thing popping up, changing the positioning of the new element is the most straightforward and can let you put the block exactly where you want it.
I have a demonstration and full explanation in a fiddle showing several examples along the way to getting what you want.
Basically, styling is needed to reposition the timeout message element that you're inserting. Styling is better done with CSS styles, compared to adding a bunch of inline styles. If I put my timeout popup message in a "messagebox" I can make a class for it.
/* Your styles, plus a couple extra to make the example stand out better */
div.messagebox {
font-size: 16px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
top: 40%;
left: 30%;
background-color: white;
border: 2px solid black;
}
Likewise, style the message itself with a class, instead of using inline styles and the deprecated presentational tags <b> and <i>.
/* I want the message in a messagebox to be bold-italic-red text. */
div.messagebox .message {
color: red;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
}
The big difference is that we will change the positioning of the element from the default static to instead use absolute positioning:
/* I don't really recommend a class called "positioned".
A class should describe the kind of thing the element *is*
not how it *looks*
*/
div.messagebox.positioned {
position: absolute;
width: 40%;
padding: 1.5em;
}
/* The container of the positioned element also has to be positioned.
We position it "relative" but don't move it from its natural position.
*/
section#hasposition {
position: relative;
}
The term "absolute" is tricky to learn ... the element being positioned is given an absolute position within its container, in a sense it's positioned relative to its container... but what position:relative means is relative to its own natural position, so it's easy to get confused at first over whether you want absolute or relative positioning.
Putting it all together, we have some basic HTML that represents major portions of a page — a real page will have far more, but those should be contained within some top-level containers. This shows only those top-level containers.
Then we have some javascript that will add the new element at the appropriate time. Here I just call the function to add it after a delay created with setTimeout(). I'm using full-on jQuery since you're using some in your example, and it makes the javascript more portable and more concise.
function ShowSessionTimeoutStyled() {
var styler = $('<div>').addClass('messagebox').addClass('positioned');
styler.html('<span class="message">The Session Timed Out</span>');
$('#hasposition .above').after(styler);
}
// wait 6 seconds then add the new div
setTimeout(ShowSessionTimeoutStyled, 6000);
div.messagebox {
font-size: 16px;
width: auto;
height: auto;
top: 20%;
left: 20%;
background-color: white;
border: 2px solid black;
}
div.messagebox .message {
color: red;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
}
div.messagebox.positioned {
position: absolute;
width: 40%;
padding: 1.5em;
}
section#hasposition {
position: relative;
}
/* also style some of the basic parts so you can see them better in the demonstration */
section.explanation {
margin: 1em 0.5em;
padding: 0.5em;
border: 1px solid gray;
}
.demonstration {
margin-left: 1em;
padding: 1em;
background-color: #e0e0e0;
}
.demonstration .above {
background-color: #fff0f0;
}
.demonstration .middle {
background-color: #f0fff0;
}
.demonstration .below {
background-color: #f0f0ff;
}
.demonstration footer {
background-color: white;
}
p {
margin-top: 0;
padding-top: 0;
}
section {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<section class="explanation">
<p>Here, a div is added dynamically, after the "basic part above", but the added div is <em>positioned</em>. You can see the other content isn't affected.</p>
<section class="demonstration" id="hasposition">
<div class="above">Basic part above</div>
<div class="middle">Middle part</div>
<div class="below">Part Below</div>
<footer>This is the page footer</footer>
</section>
</section>
I highly recommend the site Position Is Everything for articles and tutorials on positioning. Some of its other content is outdated — who needs to make PNGs to do drop-shadows any more? — but the way positioning works hasn't changed.

Edit cursor not displayed on Chrome in contenteditable

When you open this page (see Live demo) with Chrome :
<span id="myspan" contenteditable=true></span>
CSS :
#myspan { border: 0; outline: 0;}
JS :
$(myspan).focus();
the contenteditable span has focus (you can start to write things and you will see that it already had focus), but we don't see the "I" edit cursor.
How to make that this cursor is displayed ? (Remark : outline:0 is needed, as well as the fact that the span is empty even with no white space).
Note : With Firefox, the cursor is displayed.

The problem is that spans are inline elements. Just add display:block; to your CSS and it will fix the problem.
$(myspan).focus();
#myspan {
border: 0;
outline: 0;
display: block;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<span id="myspan" contenteditable=true></span>

I added padding to the left and the cursor appears.
#myspan
{
border: 0;
outline: 0;
min-width: 100px;
height: 30px;
padding-left: 1px;
}
Demo in jsFiddle

.cont_edit {
outline: 1px solid transparent;
}

This just has to do with the way an empty ContentEditable area is rendered. To prove it's not about the focus, add some text to your editable div, and then delete it. When the last character is gone, the cursor will disappear
From the question Setting the caret position to an empty node inside a contentEditable element
The selection/range model is based around indexes into text content, disregarding element boundaries. I believe it may be impossible to set the input focus inside an inline element with no text in it. Certainly with your example I cannot set focus inside the last element by clicking or arrow keys.
It almost works if you set each span to display: block, though there's still some highly strange behaviour, dependent on the existence of whitespace in the parent. Hacking the display to look inline with tricks like float, inline-block and absolute position make IE treat each element as a separate editing box. Relative-positioned block elements next to each other work, but that's probably impractical.
You could also try adding a zero-width character like ​
document.getElementById('myspan').focus();
#myspan {
border: 0;
outline: 0;
}
<span id="myspan" contenteditable="true">​</span>

The solution was to change <span> to <div> (I've seen that this solves many contenteditable problems in other questions here and there) + to add a min-width.
Indeed, with the following code, the size of the <div> would be 0px x 18px ! That explains why the caret (edit cursor) would be hidden !
HTML
<div id="blah" contenteditable=true></div>
CSS
#blah {
outline: 0;
position: absolute;
top:10px;
left:10px;
}
JS
$("#blah").focus();
Then, adding
min-width: 2px;
in the CSS will allow the caret to be displayed, even with Chrome : http://jsfiddle.net/38e9mkf4/2/

The issue I faced on Chrome v89.0.4389.90 was that contenteditable fields would sometimes show the blinking caret on focusin and sometimes not. I noticed it always blinks when there's already content in the field before focusing. It's when there's no content that the sometimes will/won't behavior occurs.
At first, I thought there must be some conflicting event handler that's erratically taking focus away. I disabled all my event binds and timers. Still the same erratic behavior. Then I thought it might be some conflicting CSS, so I disabled all stylesheets. At least now the behavior was consistent: the caret blinks 100% of the time when the field has content; the caret does not blink 100% of the time when the field has no content.
I enabled binds and stylesheets again. My div was already set to display: block; with min-width, min-height, and padding set in the final computed style set. None of the other answers here worked. I do have a placeholder on :empty:before that was a possible culprit. I commented that out. Now the behavior was consistent again, same as if the stylesheet was off. Oddly enough, the runnable snippet on SO works with the same computed CSS stack. I want to keep the placeholder, so it requires further research with my actual codebase...
The only solution I could get to work 100% of the time with my current issue involved forcibly placing the caret inside empty fields by creating a blank space and removing it immediately afterwards. Best I can do for a workaround until debugging the root cause.
//force caret to blink inside masks
let force_caret = function() {
if (!this.textContent) {
this.textContent = ' ';
let r = document.createRange(),
s = window.getSelection();
r.setStart(this.childNodes[0], 0);
r.collapse(true);
s.removeAllRanges();
s.addRange(r);
this.textContent = '';
}
}
//binds
let els = document.querySelectorAll("[contenteditable]");
for (let i = 0; i < els.length; i++) {
els[i].addEventListener('focusin', force_caret, false);
}
/* styles irrelevant to the issue, added for visual assist */
:root {
--b-soft: 1px solid silver;
--bs-in: inset 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3), 0 1px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.1);
--c-soft: gray;
--lg-warm: linear-gradient(30deg, rgb(254, 250, 250), #eedddd);
}
body {
font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, -apple-system-font, 'Segoe UI', 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}
[contenteditable] {
outline: initial;
}
[contenteditable][placeholder]:empty:before {
content: attr(placeholder);
color: var(--c-soft);
background-color: transparent;
font-style: italic;
opacity: .5;
font-size: .9em;
}
.input {
border-bottom: var(--b-soft);
padding: .2em .5em;
}
.input_mask {
display: flex;
align-items: baseline;
color: var(--c-soft);
}
.mask {
box-shadow: var(--bs-in);
border-radius: .2em;
background: var(--lg-warm);
font-weight: 500;
border: 1px solid transparent;
text-transform: uppercase;
/* styles possibly relevant to the issue according to other proposed solutions */
margin: 0 .4em .1em .4em;
padding: .2em .4em;
min-width: 3em;
min-height: 1em;
text-align: center;
}
<div data-type="tel" data-id="phone" class="input input_mask">
<span>+1 (</span>
<div maxlength="3" contenteditable="true" placeholder="111" class="mask"></div>
<span>)</span>
<div maxlength="3" contenteditable="true" placeholder="111" class="mask"></div>
<span>-</span>
<div maxlength="4" contenteditable="true" placeholder="1111" class="mask"></div>
<span>x</span>
<div maxlength="5" contenteditable="true" class="mask"></div>
</div>

Add a CSS style of
min-height: 15px;
you may also need
display: block;
to your contenteditable="true" tag

For me setting it content of contenteditable div to <br> works. I tried setting it to nbsp; but that creates extra character space in the div before i start editing. So, i choose this:
<div id="blah" contenteditable=true><br></div>
over:
<div id="blah" contenteditable=true>nbsp;</div>
Hope this helps.

I use Chrome and your Code works fine.
Try to use cursor: text; in your CSS. See here

Colour change on dragenter and dragleave not working jquery

When dragging and entering the <div class="upload-cont"> the color changes perfectly from gray to black of border and text and when it comes to the <span class="add-text"> it changes back to gray.
CSS:
.upload-cont{
cursor:pointer;
margin-left:130px;
display:inline-block;
border:2px dashed #a8a8a8;
max-width:220px;
max-height:180px;
min-width:220px;
min-height:180px;
position:relative;
border-radius:3px;
}
.add-text{
display:block;
font-size:10px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#999;
word-wrap:break-word;
text-align:center;
width:100px;
top:37%;
left:25%;
position:absolute;
}
.add-text:hover{ color:black; }
HTML:
<div class="upload-cont">
<span class="add-text">
Click to add or<br/>
Drag and drop image here
</span>
</div>
Jquery:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".upload-cont,.add-text").on('dragenter', function (e) {
$(".upload-cont").css({
"border": "2px dashed black"
});
$(".add-text").css({
"color": "black"
});
});
$(".upload-cont").on('dragleave', function (e) {
$(".upload-cont").css("border", "2px dashed #a8a8a8");
$(".add-text").css({
"color": "#a8a8a8"
});
});
});
What can i do to remain the black color for the border and text when entering <span class="add-text">
Check this jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rpABs/
Thanks in advance

Use dragover instead of dragenter since dragleave fires when you enter child elements
$(".upload-cont,.add-text").on('dragover', function (e) {
$(".upload-cont").css({
"border": "2px dashed black"
});
$(".add-text").css({
"color": "black"
});
});
$(".upload-cont").on('dragleave', function (e) {
$(".upload-cont").css("border", "2px dashed #a8a8a8");
$(".add-text").css({
"color": "#a8a8a8"
});
});
DEMO

Apparently this problem is more recurrent than I thought since I found at least 5 questions associated with the same topic (and I will answer all related with this issue).
Unlike "mouseover", the events "dragover" and "dragleave" do not consider the child elements as a whole, so each time the mouse passes over any of the children, "dragleave" will be triggered.
Thinking about the upload of files, I created a widget that allows:
Drag and drop desktop files using $ _FILES
Drag and drop to browser images/elements or url using $ _POST and cURL
Attach a device file using button using $ _FILES
Use input to write/paste url images/elements using $ _POST and cURL
The problem: As everything, both form inputs and images, are within DIVs children, "dragleave" was triggered even if it did not leave the dashed line. Using the attribute "pointer-events: none" is not an alternative since methods 3 and 4 need to trigger "onchange" events.
The solution? An overlapping DIV that covers all the drop-container when the mouse enters, and the only one with child elements with "pointer-events: none".
The structure:
div #drop-container: main div, keep all togheter
div #drop-area: "dragenter" listener and inmediate trigger #drop-pupup
div #drop-pupup: at same leval as #drop-area, "dragenter", "dragleave" and "drop" listener
Then, when the mouse enters by dragging an element to #drop-area, inmediatly shows #drop-pupup ahead and successively the events are on this div and not the initial receiver.
Here is the JS/jQuery code. I took the liberty to leave the PoC so do not lose all the time I lost.
jQuery(document).on('dragover', '#drop-area', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
event.stopPropagation();
jQuery('#drop-popup').css('display','block');
});
jQuery(document).on('dragover dragleave drop', '#drop-popup', function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
event.stopPropagation();
console.log(event.type);
// layout and drop events
if ( event.type == 'dragover') {
jQuery('#drop-popup').css('display','block');
}
else {
jQuery('#drop-popup').css('display','none');
if ( event.type == 'drop' ) {
// do what you want to do
// for files: use event.originalEvent.dataTransfer.files
// for web dragged elements: use event.originalEvent.dataTransfer.getData('Text') and CURL to capture
}
}
});
body {
background: #ffffff;
margin: 0px;
font-family: sans-serif;
}
#drop-container {
margin: 100px 10%; /* for online testing purposes only */
width: 80%; /* for jsfiddle purposes only */
display: block;
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
box-sizing: content-box;
position: relative; /* needed to use absolute on #drop-popup */
border-radius: 5px;
text-align: center;
cursor: default;
border: 2px dashed #000000;
}
#drop-area {
display: block;
float: left;
padding: 10px;
width: 100%;
}
#drop-popup {
display: none;
box-sizing: content-box;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: linear-gradient(to BOTTOM, rgba(245, 245, 245, 1) , rgba(245, 245, 245, 0));
height: 512px;
padding: 20px;
z-index: 20;
}
#drop-popup > p {
pointer-events: none;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>Drag and Drop</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="drop-container">
<div id="drop-area">
<p>Child paragraph content inside drop area saying "drop a file or an image in the dashed area"</p>
<div>This is a child div No. 1</div>
<div>This is a child div No. 2</div>
</div>
<div id="drop-popup">
<p>This DIV will cover all childs on main DIV dropover event and current P tag is the only one with CSS "pointer-events: none;"</p>
</div>
</div>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</body>
<html>
About jQuery "on", use it with the div id inside on, so you can start event triggers starting "uploading box" hidden.
Finally, I preferred to use "dragover" over "dragenter" because it has a small delay (milliseconds) that favors performance
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/dragover_event).

The dragover event fires constantly as you're dragging, so I'm not a fan of that solution. I've written a little library called Dragster that gives me better enter & leave events.