Partial input text coloring

[scasti1]

Is there a way to partially color text already in an input field. I don't think there is as I believe you can only change the color style for the entire text. I would like to be able to partially change the color:

testing-this

for instance, "testing-" would be black and "this" would be red to let the user know that this same coloring would show up later upon printing. I really don't want to take up more real estate to indicate this in some other fashion, and it wouldn't be obvious anyway.

Thanks if anybody has any ideas.

Scott

[tadster]

instead of a input field, you could use a div, with a background of a black and red image, and make its content editable via javascript, the user would then be able to type into it, it would already have the colors.