Textarea that can do syntax highlighting on the fly?

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It’s not possible to achieve the required level of control over presentation in a regular textarea.

If you’re OK with that, try CodeMirror or Ace or Monaco (used in MS VSCode).

From the duplicate thread – an obligatory wikipedia link: Comparison of JavaScript-based source code editors

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