title: jquery turn text tags to html tags
body: <p>I have a field that fills in a div similar to how the asking a question works here on stackoverflow.</p>
  
  <pre><code>    var text = $("#edit").val();
      $("#output").text(text);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to be able to use a selected few html tags, like &lt;b&gt; bold for example. When I try this at the moment, the tags come up as text rather than html. If possible I want to be able to search for specific tags and make them into html.</p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help?</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>