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I've managed to find this script...

 

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"><!--

function Bolden()
{
   var MyElement = document.getElementById("chatmsg");
MyElement.value("<b></b>");

   return true;
}

//--></script>

</head>
<body>
<a style='cursor: pointer;' onClick="Bolden()"><b>Bold</b></a>

		<input id="chatmsg" type="text" size="60" maxlength="80"  onkeyup="keyup(event.keyCode);">

 

And basically its meant to be a very simple richtext editor, so you click the Bold link and in the input box it adds <b></b> to the input, which works. However, it just replaces any text with the bold tags instead of adding it on the end. Does anyone know the problem? I'm a complete beginner when it comes to javascript.

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This will do that. Note that I changed the function to accept a parameter (the field ID) and that I added it to the onclick trigger.

 

<script type="text/javascript"><!--

function Bolden(fieldID)
{
   var fieldObj = document.getElementById(fieldID);
   fieldObj.value = '<b>'+fieldObj.value+'</b>';
   return true;
}

//--></script>

</head>
<body>
<a style='cursor: pointer;' onClick="Bolden('chatmsg')"><b>Bold</b></a>
<input id="chatmsg" type="text" size="60" maxlength="80" onkeyup="keyup(event.keyCode);">

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