textarea/display question...

hi.. i'm presenting a textarea to the user... i'd like to be able to display the information within the textarea in a <table> format. this would allow me to highlight the material that the user should modify. however, i can't figure out how to accomplish this... $foo = '<table><tr><td class='red'>blah</td></tr></table>'; <textarea value='$foo'></textarea> something like the above, but without displaying all the attrib stuff... any ideas/pointers would be appreciated.. thanks -bruce