Inserting Text Into A Div At The Current Cursor Position?
Sep 9, 2009
In IE it is a simple matter of: range.text += text; but I am having great difficulty figuring it out for FF.I have looked online for hours but the only solutions that I can find are to do with inserting text into textareas which supply you with nice 'selectionStart', 'selectionEnd' properties. Using a textarea would be useless for my purposes and a div element does not have such properties. An implementation in this case I am thinking would rely solely on the range object for the necesary selection / cursor position information, but I cannot figure out how to do this using the FF/W3C Range object.What I'm basically doing is trying to enable the user to paste unformatted (plain) text into a contenteditable zone for a WYSIWYG editor. I have got it working in IE, but FF is a whole other kettle of fish for this particular issue.
I am looking to be able to insert some text into a text box on a form without replacing the contents and so that preferably it appears at the cursor position.
The need is in a content management system, I want to be able to insert the code for an image, from a drop down menu listing the images, into the textbox containing that areas content.
I want to get the cursor start and end position of a selected range in a text-field or text-area. i tried lot of functions in various forums. but when the last character of the selection is a new line character JavaScript ignore it in IE6. any one having idea ?
How to add a function that will add some text in textarea, when someone clicks on button, where the cursor is?(Like here, on daniweb textareas!)eg. There is bold button! The user clicks on it, and the text "[BOLD][/BOLD]" writes where curser/caret is. Cursor/caret (|) is focused between these two elements "[BOLD]cursor/caret (|)[/BOLD]"
I need to control the cursor position in a textbox to do this, does anyone know how to place the cursor in the textbox at a particular position
The functionality I am looking for... Excel provides data entry help based on previous entries i.e. if in a previous cell in a column I entered "Jim Bob" then the next cell I type a "J" Excel provides help by showing "Jim Bob" in a way that allows me to pick it or keep typing. This is the kind of functionality I am trying to get using JS.
In the code below I create an array of previous entries by the user over the last 45 days this all comes from a DB but that's not important here. When the user enters a key in the textbox I can pop the text box with a matching value from the array, only up to the chars entered.
The Problem or Question: Is there a way to place the curser back into the last position and highlight the remaining part of the match from the array?
This is really hard to explain but if you ever used Excel you may have an idea of what I am trying to do. Code:
I'm using contentEditable divs. I want to have a button a person can press, a modal window appears, some text from the modal window is selected, then it is to be inserted into the contentEditable div in the location the cursor was at before pressing the button. So how can I save that spot so I can insert there?
I've got a text area called Notes in a form called frmMain.
And I've got a JavaScript function.
Within the JavaScript function what code can I use to move the cursor to the text area field and specifically within that field I'd like the cursor to be exactly 10 characters into the field?
Question 1 ---------------- I am writing an advanced BBCode system for my forums and I would like to be able to find where the cursor was positioned last in the text so I could insert the BBCode there.
Question 2 ---------------- Again I am writing an advanced BBCode system for my forums and I would like to make is so that when someone puts in a [b] tag it goes bold, so kind of a WYSIWYG editor and also for other things like [img] tags and [url] tags. So could someone tell me how to do that. I would preferably like it to still use the textarea tag, or at least a form component so my existing code works.
I have created a nice blog form for my users and I would like them to be able to use some aspects of HTML code that I have styled and they can utilise. The way I have this set up at the moment is, much like th reply boxes here, they can click on a button and the code (such as ) is automatically added to the textarea. The problem I have at the moment is that the cursor goes to the end of the content written so far and places whatever they have clicked at the end. I would like to be able to detect the cursor position and then they can add the various tags where they want them.
Also, is there a way I can get the cursor to automatically sit between the opening and closing tags that are generated (as can be seen here)??
function writeCodeTag(code) { var cache = document.getElementById('f').article.value; this.code = code; document.getElementById('f').article.value = cache + code; document.getElementById('f').article.focus(); }
This function adds the various code tags to the textarea... I have the same sort of thing for smilies.
If the user presses enter and their cursor is in the middle of a <p>, i want to insert a <br> tag. If their cursor is at the end of the <p> tag's innerHTML, then i want to insert a new <p> tag.
I can insert both tags as I need, but I can't find a way to get the position of the cursor relative to its containing tag (just assuming there's no other markup in the <p>'s innerHTML, so that selection.parentElement() will return the <p> tag).
Is there a way to read a position of the cursor in the textarea window form? In the place showed by the cursor there should be placed any text or html tags? (when clicking on a button). I know that it's possible to write in addition to the content of the window but can you put anything to the middle of the text?
while (re.test(str)) str = str.replace(re, '$1.$2$3')
str += (arr.length 1) ? (',' + arr[1]) : ''
elm.value = str } </snip>
It works as I expected, except that after the function finished its execution the cursor moves to the end of the textfield. So if I want to insert two or more characters, the rest of it goes to the end of textfield.
How I determine the position of the cursor in the textfield before executing the regex?
I am currently working on a small script that allows people to insert BB-codes to edit their text. They are able to click a button (for example underline) and then the bb-code will appear at the end of the textfield-value.How can i retrieve the current position of the cursor within the textarea and then parse the bb-code within?
how can i fix this to work correctly in ie7 (and preferably ie6)this is what's supposed to happen: in a text field, as a uk postcode is typed in, once the user has typed in enough to know where the space in the postcode should be it's being placed in there for them automatically.
I'm looking for a function that I can use which will do the following when the mouse cursor is in a textarea:
know which textarea to work with based on current cursor position (not sure if this possible, couldn't find examples) - i.e. just 1 'Bold' button to operate on multiple textareas.
insert tag or tags (i.e. ,[image]) at cursor position, if text is selected then insert tags around text selection.
