add link in textarea

[mike10101]

Hi,

I am using the following function to insert a link on selected text in a textarea

function formatTextLink (tag) {
var selectedText = document.selection.createRange().text;

if (selectedText != "") {
var newText = "<a href='" + tag + "'>" + selectedText + "</a>" ;
document.selection.createRange().text = newText;
}
}


onClick="formatTextLink('

http://www.gazeley.co.uk')"

This works great but ideally I would like to be able pre-specify the address in another textfield and then insert this address

any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

Let's say you have another text field with an id of "myUrl":

<input type="text" id="myUrl">

then you can use this to pick the URL from that field:

onclick="formatTextLink(document.getElementById('myUrl').value);"

Hope this helps,
Dan


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[mike10101]

Excellent, thank you very much. that worked perfect