selecting portion of textarea/input

[Sandman]

I bet this has been asked before, but here goes.

How do I set or get the highlight of a text in a textarea? The obvious use of
this is having the user highlighting a portion of the text and pressing the
"bold"-button which will insert <b> and </b> around the text.

Can this be done?

 

[DJ WIce]

: I bet this has been asked before, but here goes.

If you think so use google groups;
http://groups.google.com/groups?meta=group=comp.lang.javascript&q=selection+part

Wouter

 

[Sandman]

: I bet this has been asked before, but here goes.

If you think so use google groups;

I did, and didn't find anything good. Which is why I posted.