Your string is just a string, of course you could store it in
JavaScript string.  You have to, however, be aware that while <button> value
can contain formatted text, like understand, bold, etc, it's not true for
input and text-area.  Esp in text-area, the content is supposed to be plain
text.  This is by definition.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gow@w... [mailto:gow@w...] 
> Sent: vendredi 7 mars 2003 13:34
> To: javascript
> Subject: [javascript] javascript / HTML text modifying tags
> 
> 
> From Bob Gow, gow@w...
> 
> Is it possible to store HTML text-modifier tags within 
> javascript strings.
> 
> e.g. HTML:  2*x<sup>2</sup> 
> 
> This is so JavaScript can write the string direct into 
> innerText, OR into 
> a text-area, or maybe underline certain characters on a BUTTON value
>