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by alexcabrera 4574 days ago
If you need that much styling control over a text area, using a content editable region and Javascript for the interaction is almost certainly a better option.
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An even better option is to use emscripten to bundle custom HTML rendering engine that would draw styled text input using Wayland server running on <canvas>
You kid, but despite how horrifying that is, something like it will probably end up happening.
Why not just CSS? All I want is to set the line-height.