Manipulating a textarea

[Floortje]

Hi, for the past few days now im trying to find some info on how to
manipulate textarea's with javascript. Im trying to add content when a
certain element is clicked or alter content if another is clicked (wrap
ubb tags around it).

I have found quite a few examples but they either dont work on all major
browsers (example
http://phphulp.jorendewit.nl/snippets/javascript/ubb.php) or they are
complete WYSIWYG editors and have quite a large footprint (as most
people on the www just recommend tinymce).

Does anyone know of an example that does the trick or can anyone push me
in the right direction ?

Floortje

 

[David Mark]

Hi, for the past few days now im trying to find some info on how to
manipulate textarea's with javascript. Im trying to add content when a
certain element is clicked or alter content if another is clicked (wrap
ubb tags around it).

Wrap "ubb tags" around what? A textarea can only contain text.

I have found quite a few examples but they either dont work on all major
  browsers (examplehttp://phphulp.jorendewit.nl/snippets/javascript/ubb..php) or they are

No shock there.

complete WYSIWYG editors and have quite a large footprint (as most
people on the www just recommend tinymce).

Most people on the www are pinheads.

Does anyone know of an example that does the trick or can anyone push me
in the right direction ?

To set the value of a textarea? No trick required. Set its value
property.

 

[Floortje]

David Mark schreef:

Wrap "ubb tags" around what? A textarea can only contain text.

wrap ubb tags around the text in the textarea

To set the value of a textarea? No trick required. Set its value
property.

Yup but how do I change the value and add / alter texted based ont he
curcur position inside the textarea.

 

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

^^^^^^^^^^^^
I won't, because I can't. And that's why you will get no answer here, too.


PointedEars

 

[David Mark]

          ^^^^^^^^^^^^
I won't, because I can't.  And that's why you will get no answer here, too.

Well said.

 

[Rik Wasmus]

David Mark schreef:

wrap ubb tags around the text in the textarea



Yup but how do I change the value and add / alter texted based ont he
curcur position inside the textarea.

To rephrase (probably still in far from fluent english):
"How can I get only the currently selected and/or the cursor position in a
textarea, and how can I replace this and only this text, leaving the not
selected contents of the textarea intact"

Never needed to dabble with that, but at least phrased that way one gets
less semantics fanatics excited

 

[David Mark]

David Mark schreef:



wrap ubb tags around the text in the textarea

Okay, I Googled ubb (sic) tags. Yes, you can use them with a
textarea; and no, tinyMCE would not have been a good choice.

Not a good one.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsISelection

 

[Floortje]

To rephrase (probably still in far from fluent english):
"How can I get only the currently selected and/or the cursor position in
a textarea, and how can I replace this and only this text, leaving the
not selected contents of the textarea intact"

Never needed to dabble with that, but at least phrased that way one gets
less semantics fanatics excited

hi Rik,

Thx that is what I mean

Floortje

 

[Floortje]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/NsISelection

cool thx ill start from there

Floortje