Creating a 'textarea' like 'canvas' element in (X)HTML?

I'm trying to set up a full-page text-editor using (X)HTML, and am exploring several ways of going about this. I've got several working solutions using more conventional methods such as textarea, but, partially out of curiosity, and partially out of trying to find solutions to certain shortcomings of these more conventional methods, I was wondering if it were pos开发者_如何学Csible to create a textarea like canvas element using (X)HTML, and, if so, how?

Why don't you use google svg editor.