What are the main differences between a text box and a rich text box

[steel]

What are the advantages and disadvantages between the two

[MicahCarrick]

A text box is a very simple text box ... like this one I'm typing in now.

A rich textbox however, can have a multitude of Fonts, sizes, colors, alignments, styles, and even OLE objects embeded in it. It can act like a listview and have icons which open the icon using the default assosiated program, they can have embedded images and exel spreadsheets and anything else under the sun.

[cfmoxey]

Another real big advantage of the RTB is its ability to display more than the 64k of text that a plain-vanilla textbox displays (in the real world, probably 32k).