How to schange marked text in a textfield vith a form button

[brynjan]

I have made a textfield that submit html to a db site and now i want to make it possible to change the text that is typed with a form button.

Ex. text written in the textfield:
Hi my name is johan

after this you should beenabel to mark johan with the mouse and press a form button and then the textfiled should be like this:

Hi my name is <b>johan</b>

Does anyone have a soulotion to this problem?

 

[TuZ]

hie
try this:
~script:
function boldit(){
sel=document.selection
range=sel.createRange()
thetext=range.text
if (thetext.length){
range.text=&quot;<b>&quot;+thetext+&quot;</b>&quot;
}
}
..

~form:
..
<input type=button value=&quot;bold me&quot; onclick=&quot;boldit()&quot;>
..

but be warned: this would change EVERYTHING on the page that would be selected on the moment of button clicking (i mean if you'll select something outside your textfield/area, then it would be changed to &quot;<b>&quot;+..+&quot;</b>&quot; as well)

 

[brynjan]

thx tuz

have written this but it wont work, what have i done wrong

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScrippt&quot;>

function boldit()
{
sel=document.selection
range=sel.createRange()
thetext=range.text
if (thetext.length)
{
range.text=&quot;<b>&quot;+thetext+&quot;</b>&quot;
}
}

</script>


<form>


<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;textfield&quot;>
<input type=button value=&quot;bold me&quot; onclick=&quot;boldit()&quot;>

</form>

 

[TuZ]

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScrippt&quot;>