eXtaZa Posted May 13, 2006 Share Posted May 13, 2006 So...If have a textarea named "Message" and a image named "a",and I want that when i'm clicking the "a" image it write to me the string ":lol:" in the textarea, i'm doing like this (the function):[code]function AddSmile(smile_name){document.myForm.Message.value = document.myForm.Message.value + smile_name;}[/code]and the code in the image:[code]<a href="#" onClick="AddSmile(':lol:')"><img src="a.gif"></a>[/code]Now... when I will click "a" image, it will write to me the string ":lol:" in the textarea, but it will write this string in the end of the text that I wrote, And I want that it will write to me this string where I'm focusing with the cursor.I mean that if I wrote in the textarea like this:123456789And I'm focusing with the cursor between 4 and 5 (1234 56789) then I want that when im clicking the image it will write to me ":lol:" between 4 and 5 and not in the end, after 9.How can I do that?Thanks. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/9601-help-with-textarea/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
GBS Posted May 17, 2006 Share Posted May 17, 2006 Here we go,,,Taken from 2 existant scripts & a little bit changed,, (1st one was for the bbcode tags, & the other for the smileys)[code]<html><head><title>Inserting text and smileys,,</title><style>body {background-color:white;}.textform {position:absolute;left:120px;top:50px;}.buttons {margin-left:5px;padding-bottom: 0.5em;}.text {background-color:#FAF9F0;}.smiley1 {background:url(a.gif) no-repeat;width:24px;cursor:pointer;position:absolute;padding: .6em;padding-top: 0;padding-bottom: 0;top:50px;left:-50px;}</style></head><body><script language="Javascript">var isMozilla = (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('gecko')!=-1) ? true : false;var regexp = new RegExp("[\n]","gi");function storeCaret(selec,type){ if (isMozilla) { // Firefox oField = document.forms['news'].elements['newst']; objectValue = oField.value; objectValueStart = objectValue.substring( 0 , oField.selectionStart ); objectValueEnd = objectValue.substring( oField.selectionEnd , oField.textLength ); objectSelected = objectValue.substring( oField.selectionStart ,oField.selectionEnd ); if (type) // smiley { oField.value = objectValueStart + " " + selec + objectSelected + objectValueEnd; } else { oField.value = objectValueStart + "[" + selec + "]" + objectSelected + "[/" + selec + "]" + objectValueEnd; } oField.focus(); if (type) // smiley { oField.setSelectionRange(objectValueStart.length + selec.length + 2,objectValueStart.length + selec.length + 1); } else { oField.setSelectionRange(objectValueStart.length + selec.length + 2,objectValueStart.length + selec.length + 2); } } else { // IE oField = document.forms['news'].elements['newst']; var str = document.selection.createRange().text; if (str.length>0) {// if we have selected some text,, var sel = document.selection.createRange(); if (type) // smiley { sel.text = " " + selec; } else { sel.text = "[" + selec + "]" + str + "[/" + selec + "]"; } sel.collapse(); sel.select(); } else { oField.focus(oField.caretPos); oField.focus(oField.value.length); oField.caretPos = document.selection.createRange().duplicate(); var bidon = "%~%"; // needed to catch the cursor position with IE var orig = oField.value; oField.caretPos.text = bidon; var i = oField.value.search(bidon); if (type) // smiley { oField.value = orig.substr(0,i) + " " + selec + orig.substr(i, oField.value.length); } else { oField.value = orig.substr(0,i) + "[" + selec + "][/" + selec + "]" + orig.substr(i, oField.value.length); } var r = 0; for(n = 0; n < i; n++) { if(regexp.test(oField.value.substr(n,2)) == true) {r++;} }; if (type) // smiley { pos = i + 1 + selec.length - r; } else { pos = i + 2 + selec.length - r; } // re-format the textarea & move the cursor to the correct position var r = oField.createTextRange(); r.moveStart('character', pos); r.collapse(); r.select(); } }}</script><form name="news"><div class="textform"> <div class="buttons"> <input type="button" value="b" style="width:50px;font-weight:bold" onclick="storeCaret('b')"> <input type="button" value="i" style="width:50px;font-style:italic" onclick="storeCaret('i')"> <input type="button" value="u" style="width:50px;text-decoration:underline" onclick="storeCaret('u')"> <input type="button" value="quote" style="width:50px" onclick="storeCaret('quote')"> <input type="button" value="code" style="width:50px" onclick="storeCaret('code')"> <input type="button" value="url" style="width:50px" onclick="storeCaret('url')"> <input type="button" value="img" style="width:50px" onclick="storeCaret('img')"> <input type="button" class="smiley1" onclick="storeCaret(':)','smiley')"> </div><textarea name="newst" id="newst" class="text" rows="10" cols="45"></textarea></div></form><script>document.getElementById('newst').value = ""; // needed for firefox</script></body></html>[/code]Hoping it helps,... & have a fun with it ! :)l8tr,, Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/9601-help-with-textarea/#findComment-36762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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