I am hoping that someone could point me in the right direction. Here is what I have and would like to do.

I have a web app that I would like to allow users to input very basic formatting which i then can save to a SQL database.

I don't really need the user to fully format only things like Bold, Italics, New lines.. I do not need to allow the user to modify fonts or sizes.

Any advice on how to proceed would be very helpful.. Thanks