adding bold and italics for user of CMS system

Hi,

I've written a simple CMS system for my website. I'd like to add the little buttons in which allow the user to make sections of text bold, italics, underlined etc.

How can I do this? At the moment I'm having to manually insert the <b> </b>
tags!

Thanks,

Nicky

What you are exactly looking for is a Rich-Text-Editor. This may be helpful
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/richtexteditor/index.htm

Thanks.

Ideally I wanted to write one myself rather than use a template.

Nicky