Manipulating a forms textarea

iambaz

03-04-2005, 07:22 PM

Hi,

I am trying to create a button on my form that when pressed, will add a certain html tag to the beginning and end of the selected string. Same as what is used in this textarea where if you select a certain string and click the above Bold icon, it will put the tags in.

Any help apreciated. Thanks.

dlg0351

03-04-2005, 08:11 PM

Try this:

<html>
<head>
<title></title>

<script language="Javascript">

</script>
</head>

<body>

<form name="myform">
<p><textarea name="content" rows="5" cols="35" wrap="virtual"></textarea></p>
<p><input type="button" name="btnAddTag" value="Add Tag" onClick="addTag()"></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

iambaz

03-06-2005, 01:42 PM

Thanks for that but doing this encapsulates the whole textarea with the tags and not just the selected text. Is there a way we can add the tags to only the selected text?

Vladdy

03-06-2005, 02:02 PM

www.vladdy.net/demos/textareainsertion.html