title: HTML - Which element to output text?
body: <p>I'm implementing a little chat application where I receive messages from a server, which I would like to display to a user. As I'm more of a backend guy, and lacking experience in frontend development, I don't know which element would be suited best to output the text.</p>
  
  <p>Two options come to my mind:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Using a plain <code>div</code></li>
  <li>Using a <code>textarea</code> (as far as I understand, this is intended to be used for input).</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>(Would also be nice if I could somehow fade in the text using JQuery).</p>