Using an onMouseDown, I can determine the coordinates of the cursor. Is there any way to write some text (a string) at that point. I am using at the moment a <textareaa> tag. I want the user to be able to click in the text and at a string to be inserted at that point.
View 1 RepliesI 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 ?
View 1 Replies View RelatedCan anyone show me how to select text before or after a cursor in a
textarea or an RTE?
I'm trying to write a function that is similar to the ctrl+f functionality you get in IE, where you have a search string and when you click 'next' the whole string if matched is highlighted by the cursor.
This works fine for inputs and text areas using the following code:
But now I need to get it to work for normal text in a text node that is in the HTML/DOM. Is there an equivalent way of making the above method work for text in text nodes?
Alternatively is there a way to make the browser (IE) at least focus on some text in a text node? (I could then highlight it with CSS styles).
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]"
View 8 Replies View RelatedJavascript is my very weakest, and i'm not all that good..I need to adapt this (already working) code to add the text where the cursor is within the textarea.Like i say, the above code works fine, its just now to get it place where the cursor is within the box.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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:
If I drag the cursor across a page, text and other elements get
selected. Is there anyway to prevent that from happening?
I am using the following code to enter text into text box when it is
empty:
<input name="txt_url" type="text" class="form_text_300" id="txt_url"
onClick="if(this.value == ''){this.value = 'http://'}">
it works fine but when it enters the text - 'http://' - the cursor
jumps back to the start of the line in the text box. How do I then
make the cursor be placed at the end of the text. For example:
http://
here------------------'
http://
and not-------'
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?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSup yo, I need to add text in a <textarea>, but i can only append text at the end.
Is there any way to add text to where the cursor is currently at?[code]...
And below i has sum buttonz that uses that function.
So, again, how can I add text to where the I-beam is currently, instead of at the end?
when iam usig java script function to textbox,For text length minimum 4 chars, alert is raising enter minimum 4 chars, but cursor is not focus on text box, when i click on alert "OK".Here the code written.
function min()
{
var len=document.getElementById("tx1").value;[code].....
I'm working on an ajax driven chat room (you can see the "proof of concept" at URL..., and I'm currently working on a function to add color symbols to the chat textbox;As written, function works just great. however, I wish to add the further feature of placing the cursor between the symbols, if the "middle" variable is empty.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI would like to find out the followings:
1) how to set the cursor to a particular textbox depending on the value entered (after the alert message or without alert message)
2) how to make the prg to execute the js function in 2nd textbox (in textbox2row1) if the values changes in textbox1(textbox1row1) but the value in the current textbox(textbox2row1) no change.
I have this:
Code:
<TD WIDTH="99" HEIGHT="41" BACKGROUND="button1DarkWeb.bmp" VALIGN="center" ALIGN="center" rowspan=2
onclick="javascript:formHandlerMainMenu('PrognosticsView.asp');">
<FONT SIZE="+1" COLOR="White">Prognostics</FONT></TD>
It's supposed to be a custom button with centered text in. I cannot include the text in the image and make a bitmap out of it. I have to be able to change the text, and there are lots of different strings.
When the cursor is over the text. It has the shape of a text cursor, not a hand.
Is it possible to make it a hand?
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.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am currently adding BBCode to my website, and I posted a while ago in this forum for a script that would add tags to my textarea when clicking an BBcode image. But my next problem now is that I need those tags to appear around selected text and at the mouse cursor if no text is selected. Currently all it does is just add the tags at the end of your sentence if you've written something in the textarea. Here is the code I use:
function lolwut(txt)
{
var ta = document.getElementById("my_ta");
ta.value += txt;
}
window.onload = function()
{
lolwut("");
}
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?
I'm having a little trouble in 'Setting the cursor focus' on a text box, that I'm creating dynamically, when Clicked on a button (having the onccick attribute).So everytime the button is clicked, I get 3 text boxes. First text box, and the last text box, I made them uneditable. What I wanted to do was, setting the cursor focus in the second text box.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI 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'm not very well versed in javascript. I'm trying to make a bookmarklet that when I click it will either append text to what I've already written or insert the predefined text at the cursor's position in a textarea. Also the browser I'm trying to do this on is Chromium.
Here's what I have:javascript:void((function(){document.getElementsByTagName('textarea')[0].value='ಠ_ಠ'})())
but this of course changes the entire value of the text field to: ಠ_ಠ ...rather than appending or inserting at the cursor position. I'm guessing append would be the simplest, though cursor position would be most efficient.
I've got an image for the Name & Email field in a form I've made. On click, I've got the images fade out, and replaced with the text field. The problem I have, is having the cursor go in the text field. I know it works if the text field was there when I click on it, but because clicking causes an event to put it in, it does't act like I clicked on the text field. So what I'm looking to do is at the end of the replaceWith(#name_field), I want it to simulate a click so that the cursor would automatically be in there.
Here is my js...
$("#name_img").click ->
$(this).fadeOut("slow").replaceWith $("#name_form")
$("#name_form").fadeIn "slow"
I'm trying to get the cursor position to move to the end of the text within an editable iframe or div.I've been pointed to something called TextRange and have been reading up on it for days yet couldnt make sense of much (i'm still very new).what i'm trying to do is on a button click, the cursor will move to the end of the text in the iframe.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi need typing cursor back in first text box after clicking ok of alert
[CODE]
<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function player()
{
document.getElementById("Player2").value= document.getElementById("Player1").value;
[Code]...
Is there any way that I can get the first text input field to be active and READY for input.I am trying to save the user the trouble of clicking on the text input field before the user can type any information there. It is one extra step especially when using a touch screen that I would like to avoid.
View 2 Replies View RelatedQuestion 1
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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
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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.