button that pastes text in a textfield
Simply this is what I would like to accomplish. I want a text area, and when you click on a link, or button, it pastes text in the textarea, where the cursor is. Is this at all possible in javascript, dhtml, any other?
Like if the user pressed the button ten times, it would paste the text in that textarea 10x.
Thanx for your help.
VulKen
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Vincent Puglia posted this at 03:27 — 25th August 2000.
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Hi Vulken,
Don't know what you mean by "where the cursor is", but the link should look like:
Add Text
Vinny
Mark Hensler posted this at 05:21 — 25th August 2000.
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I think I know what Vulken wants. I've seen something similar of a forum. They used it to insert HTML tags. (but I forgot where they are)
(textarea)
blah blah blah |blah blah
(end textarea)
pretend that the | is the cursor..
now if you click a button labled "break", the textarea should look like this:
(textarea)
blah blah blah |blah blah
(end textarea)
Is that right, Vulken?
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Ken Elliott posted this at 13:58 — 25th August 2000.
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EDIT:# IT WORKS #:EDIT;
Yes Max that is what I am wanting to accomplish. I think Vincent has got it though. I don't know whether his will reset their text or not, but I am going to give it a shot. If that worx, man I'll be stoked!
Lemme know if you come up with anything else. I'll come back and let ya'll know how this code worked.
EDIT:
Unfortunately the link thing didn't seem to work. I tried it using the name of the form and the name of the textarea but upon click it just trys to hyperlink.
Maybe I did something wrong. Damn I was hoping that would work.
Unless there is something wrong with this code.
Add Text
[red]Problem[/red]
Missing the closing quotations!
EDIT;
VulKen
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[Edited by VulKen on 08-25-2000 at 11:48 AM]
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Mark Hensler posted this at 18:09 — 25th August 2000.
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so does it work now?
doesn't that only append to the textarea?
did you want it to insert as well?
Ken Elliott posted this at 19:07 — 25th August 2000.
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It works exactly the way I wanted it to. Can't tell you what I'm using it for though...hehe.
But if you press it ten times it pastes it in ten times. You type something, press it, it pastes it...type some more..press it...pastes some more..etc.
It's perfect. Wish all code worked this well.
VulKen
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Vincent Puglia posted this at 20:41 — 28th August 2000.
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Hi Vulken,
So...It just grows, huh? If that's all you want, you might consider putting the code in a function and adding setTimeout(), and then calling it from an onLoad event handler or some other innocuous event. That way it will grow without human intervention. (Cybersex indeed
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Ken Elliott posted this at 20:49 — 28th August 2000.
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No, Vincent..that's not all I wanted. But I can't reveal my overall plan..someone might steal it from me. But it is exactly what I wanted. Works especially well, considering I know as much about sex as I do about JavaScript..NULL! Besides where to put it!
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