Insert text into textarea at cursor position 1

[AndyGroom]

I have a form with a textarea and a droplist of phrases. I'd like to get it so that if someone chooses a phrase from the droplist it goes into the textarea at wherever the cursor was before the user clicked on the droplist. Is this possible?

- Andy
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[feherke]

Hi

In Gecko, Presto, WebKit and KHTML you can use the [tt]textarea[/tt]'s [tt]selectionStart[/tt] / [tt]selectionEnd[/tt] property like this :

[b]<textarea[/b] [maroon]id[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green][i]"ta"[/i][/green][b]>[/b][b]</textarea>[/b]

[b]<select[/b] [maroon]onchange[/maroon][teal]=[/teal][green][i]"with(document.getElementById('ta'))value=value.substr(0,selectionStart)+this.value+value.substr(selectionStart);this.selectedIndex=0"[/i][/green][b]>[/b]
[b]<option>[/b]- insert -[b]</option>[/b]
[b]<option>[/b]Hello World[b]</option>[/b]
[b]<option>[/b]Tek-Tips Rocks[b]</option>[/b]
[b]</form>[/b]

As far as I know, this will not work in Trident.

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[AndyGroom]

Thanks.

- Andy
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