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inserting text at the cursor when key pressed

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COMPAQ

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Hello,

How can we insert text (&quot;<li>&quot;) at the cursor when some one press EnterKey.

Ex:

Text: This is wonderfull

suppose cursor is located after &quot;is&quot; and before &quot;wonderfull&quot; and when we press &quot;ENTER&quot; <li> should appear after &quot;is&quot; and before &quot;wonderfull&quot;

Please help
 
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What do yu mean by a cursor? Do you mean in a textfield/area? Could you please clarify?

Key capture is impossible, (I have on good authority)

-Ben &quot;Alright whatever man, I'll hook up the hair, but I aint touchin the ring...Cause I'm still a pla--yer&quot;
 
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to make it further clear

I would like to implement it through javascript in the TEXTAREA
 
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Use onkeydown, onkeyup, or onkeypress and the unicode value of the key that triggered the event can be accessed via event.keyCode. I think the enter key is 0000. Go to to search key codes.

This works in IE, but I doubt Netscape uses this.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.
 
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and there's no way to find out the cursor position in a text area (previous thread on the same subject's conclusion !!)
 
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you can capture the enter key in a text area, but I have'nt been able to in a text input field:

<script>
function handleKey(obj)
{
if(window.event.keyCode==13)
{
obj.value+=&quot;<li>&quot;
}
}
</script>

<body>
<textarea onkeypress=&quot;handleKey(this)&quot;></textarea>

</body> jared@aauser.com
 
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if the purpose is to turn user input into list elements you could always do it after they've left the field
set onBlur to call a function which could replace any \n with \n<li>
you would have to check that you weren't doing a replacment that had already been done! ( eg. \n<li> to \n<li><li> )
 
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