Styling certain text in textarea
<p>Is it possible to only style certain text in a <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> element? I'm aware that you can't insert any other HTML tags within a <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> and would prefer not to resort to something hacky like creating a ghost or overlay element. </p>

<p>Use case: highlight any links inserted into the <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> with some font styles. It doesn't appear that the <code>contentEditable</code> really supports that, per this answer <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/1102242/849761">https://stackoverflow.com/a/1102242/849761</a> but as you can probably tell, I'm not a UI developer</p>