Sometimes it is desirable to allow the users of a web application to submit styled text to a form. For example, in a discussion board application, users might like to insert bold or italicized text, links, and even lists into their posts. Marmot allows for this by parsing a library of user-entered tags similar to that used in the UBB bulletin board system.

Within your application, you would create a form containing a user_styled input item. The user_styled input item type is similar to the large_text input item type, but it automatically adds a help_url link beneath the text box to the documentation for the tags. Just like the large_text input item type, the user_styled input item type returns a string.

When it is time to display the styled text entered by the user, you must use the user_styled attribute of the element containing the user-styled text: