In my website i want to allow users to post aritcals.Users post articles in a textarea as used by users of stackoverflow to post their question. Now i want to allow them to format articles, without having them to know html.User should be allowed to mark text as bold, put a image, mark some part as code, etc (other things as used by stackoverflow and hubpages.com).
How can i provide shuch option in UI. How do i support it DB?
Why not use an editor like TinyMCE ? http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/