Textarea escapes html tags

I am using a textarea to display text information. The text information contains HTML tags such as < B> and < font> etc. The textarea however displays the tags as text and does not translate them into HTML formatting!! how can we use a text area to display the HTML formatting?? (ie want the functionality of the textarea with editor but with out the editor toolbars)
is this possible??
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scott,
Is there anyway of formatting a Display as Text item type so that you can fix the width and height and have a scrollbar. (Ie is there anyway of making the displayas Text item type look like a textarea??)
we want to have the item displaying the text a fixed size as it is based on a clob and we want the user to be able to scroll up and down to view all of the text. We are using ctx_doc.markup to highlight search criteria so require the ability to show HTML to display the highlighted text; hence the original problem of HTML tags not being translated into commands but displayed as normal text

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