textarea displaying dynamic text

[wiredsc]

I am learning Dreamweaver after predominantly being a Flash designer for the
last few months and I am getting rather sick of this problem that I can seem to
get around:

I have layed out all my pages, I have added in each, text areas so I can add
the latest news or information etc. All I want to do is load html from an
external file (.txt/.php) into these textareas so that bits of the text are
bold or a different colour etc, now I have tried 3 methods.

1. I have tried 'include server-side', the text displays perfectly in the
dreamweaver window but when previewed in any of my browsers, all I get
displayed is '<-----include server-side.........'.

2. I have eradicated the textarea idea and added this script:
<div style="background-color:#4C3A27; font-size: 11px; color: #FFFFFF;
border-style:solid none solid none; border-color:#FFFFFF; border-width:thin;
padding:0.5em 0.5em 0.5em 0.5em; font-family: Arial; overflow:scroll;
overflow-x:hidden; width:100px; height:100px;">
<pre style="white-space: -moz-pre-wrap;white-space: -pre-wrap;white-space:
-o-pre-wrap;white-space: pre-wrap;word-wrap: break-word;">all my html
text</pre></div>
This works relatively better, only problems are that netscape doesn't
recognise the 'overflow-x:hidden' part of the css so i end up with a big white
rectangle at the bottom of the textfield, also the border doesn't display as I
want. But the main problem is that Dreamweaver has decided it doesn't want to
recognise the width and height measurements in the css and so fills my page
with all my text and borders which knackers up my whole page layout.

3. I decided to forget about externally loading text and include the html
through dreamweaver but alas, textareas don't read html so I just get it all
thrown out as script.

This is driving me crazy, this should be so simple, any suggestions?

[orange22]

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