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Textarea Cursor Possition
- Thread starter DaveShaw
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IndyFusion
Programmer
I pulled this from a Google group thread. Looks like it should work:
Here is a more complete example wich allows ie4/5 to insert previously
selected text into a textarea by clicking at the desired insertion
point. Look at the end of the page:
Here is a more complete example wich allows ie4/5 to insert previously
selected text into a textarea by clicking at the desired insertion
point. Look at the end of the page:
Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>
</TITLE>
<STYLE>
</STYLE>
<SCRIPT>
function setCaretToStart (el) {
if (el.createTextRange) {
var v = el.value;
var r = el.createTextRange();
r.moveEnd('character', -v.length);
r.select();
}
}
function setCaretToEnd (el) {
if (el.createTextRange) {
var v = el.value;
var r = el.createTextRange();
r.moveStart('character', v.length);
r.select();
}
}
function insertAtEnd (el, txt) {
el.value += txt;
setCaretToEnd (el);
}
function insertAtStart (el, txt) {
el.value = txt + el.value;
setCaretToStart (el);
}
function insertOnClick (el, txt) {
var r = document.selection.createRange();
r.text = txt;
}
function insertTag (el, sel) {
var v = sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value;
insertOnClick(el, v);
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
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