Building own WYSIWYG editor

[DragonFire-N[R]]

I've been trying to build my own WYSIWYG editor, but the browser's built in "execcommand" functions are really weak and vary too much among browsers. With this I am trying to build my own "execcommand" function which will surround highlighted text with my own tags.

 

Basically I am in need of code that will effectively surround highlighted text with a certain HTML tag.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the best approach to building my own WYSIWYG editor, but if anyone has any better ideas I'm more than willing to hear them . Sadly there aren't many good tutorials on this so it is difficult to know of many tactics.

 

Thank you in advance

[DragonFire-N[R]]

I'm bumping this because I'm still unsure of how to do this and would link a solution.