Formatting text with a text editor within a website?

My wife wants to use her new iPad 2 to participate in an online community (Ravelry, a knitting and crocheting site). She does a great deal of posting to forums within this community. The text editor for posting in these forums allows users to format their text (bolding, italicize, etc.) as well as to link to other external and internal pages within the site (writers in the forum frequently link to patterns and project images within the site as references in their posts). When she attempts to use the text editor in Ravelry from her iPad, she is unable to select the text she wants to highlight and alter it (by bolding or making it a link). When we select the text, the only options are to copy or cut and we can't, once we've selected the text, tap on the "create a link" button in the text editor. We've tried to use both Safari and Atomic Web browsers, but no luck. Help?

ravelry.com is using WMD-Editor which is a WYWIWYM Markdown editor. Unfortunately it appears their chosen WYWIWYM Markdown editor is no longer or is pretty deprecated.
You as a user are not going to be able to swap out your own editor for use on any website...these editors are hard coded by the website developer...perhaps you could, as already suggested ask them to update to a more robust editor which supports today's standards. Though I doubt you will get far in having them swap out code for this.
A Solution:
Download an alternate browser such as iCabMobile for iOS...I tested ravelry against this browser and the editor does work but is pretty unstable. Funtional but not as intended. Safari cannot load this editor properly at all.
Log into your ravalry account and read their FAQ (http://www.ravelry.com/wiki/pages/UsingTheTextEditor#formatting_bolditalic_lists _and_other_basics)
Simple BBCODE commands for formatting where you do not need to even use the tool bar work fine...just a hassle to memorize.
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