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A code box where users can edit code and preview their results all on the same page. A great way to offer your code snippets to your visitors.

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Created by: Carole Nickerson
Posted: April 5, 2006

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<div align="center">
<table style="width:600px;border:solid 1px #959492;background:#ebebea">
<tr><td valign="top">
<form name="form1" method="post">
<textarea name="code" wrap="soft" onclick="focus(this.code)" style="border:solid 1px #b9b8b6;padding:5px;width:300px;height:300px;scroll:auto;">
This is a great way to display code snippets to your visitors, allowing them to make changes and preview those changes all from the same page - keeping them on your site longer. Just replace this text within the script with whatever code you want to have displayed to your visitors. Click on the 'Generate Code' button to launch preview.<br><br>
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</textarea>
</form>
</td><td valign="top">
<iframe src="about:blank" name="preview" style="height:300px;width:300px;border:solid 1px #b9b8b6;background:#ffffff" frameborder="0">
</iframe>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<button onclick="preview.document.write (document.getElementsByTagName ('TEXTAREA')[0].value); preview.document.close(); preview.focus()">Generate Preview</button>
<button onclick="window.document.form1.code.value='';preview.document.write (document.getElementsByTagName ('TEXTAREA')[0].value); preview.document.close(); preview.focus()">Clear All</button>
<button onclick="window.location.href=window.location.href">Reload</button>
</div>