title: How to allow bolding, underlining and italics in textarea
body: <p>I'm currently using <code>nl2br()</code> when reading text from a database. Unfortunately, if I wrap some text within with  or  the text doesn't bold it and shows the code still. How do I allow for some html to go through and be rendered correctly? </p>
  
  <p>I'm currently getting this outputted from the database...</p>
  
  <p><code>&lt;b&gt;Blah blah text&lt;/b&gt;</code></p>
  
  <p>when I'd like it to show bold instead of the tags still existing.</p>
  
  <p>For ex:</p>
  
  <p>In the database I have a dummy post to test if the database works.</p>
  
  <p>The database read...</p>
  
  <pre><code>Hello and welcome to the forums! 
  
  &amp;lt;b&amp;gt;Test&amp;lt;/b&amp;gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That information is being read back through nl2br() as..</p>
  
  <pre><code>Hello and welcome to the forums! 
  
  &lt;b&gt;Test&lt;/b&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'd like test to be bolded. </p>