Textarea

ok i want to put this <a href=" http://www.myspace.com/bootstompproductions">
<img src="http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/raceriot/14344_l.gif"0" height="100" width="200" alt="click here"></a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/5starsforfailure">
<img src="http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y114/lev5stars/5%20stars%20for%20failure%20stuff/5sff-banner-3.jpg" height="100"
width="200" alt="5 Stars For Failure...ADD THEM!"></a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/shotblue"><img src="http://www.shotblue.com/images/bannermyspace.jpg" border="0" height="100" width="200" alt="SHOTBLUE"></a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/forgiveorforgetmn">
<img src="http://www.forgiveorforget.net/images/fof1.jpg" border="0" width="376" alt="Forgive or Forget" /></a>

<a href="http://www.myspace.com/speakersforthedead" target="_blank"><img src="http://img183.echo.cx/img183/5582/myspace4mx.gif" border="0" title="check out Speakers for the Dead" width="300"></a>

in a textarea but i want the actual images and links to show up, i don't want the code to show. is that possible?

No not in a textarea. Google for WYSIWYG editors.

is there a way you can put that stuff into an area where there is a scrollbar but not necessarily have it be a textarea?

Use an Iframe.

Or a scrollable div.

how do you do that?

Lets say you got this.

<div id="scrollingdiv">
<!--some html code you have-->
</div>

Then the css would be like this:

#scrollingdiv {
overflow:auto;
width:400px;
height:100px;
border:1px solid #999;
background:#ccc;
padding:.5em;
}

Offcourse you can remove the backgroundcolor and border :)

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