JS Prompt and Insertion

kb posted this at 02:22 — 4th August 2004.

Joined: Feb 2002

Ok...two problems here in building my own CMS:

#1- I am trying to have buttons that when clicked, open a JS prompt. This JS prompt doesnt' appear. I have the following in my section

&lt;script type="text/javascript" language="Javascript"&gt;<!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--
function bold(loc) {
	var b = window.prompt("What text do you want to make bold?")
	document.GetElementById(loc).write('[bold]' && b && '[/bold]')
}

function underline(loc) {
	var u = window.prompt("What text do you want to underline?")
	document.GetElementById(loc).write('[underline]' && u && '[/underline]')
}

function italics(loc) {
	var i = window.prompt("What text do you want to italicize?")
	document.GetElementById(loc).write('[italics]' && i && '[/italics]')
}

function link(loc) {
	if (var text = window.prompt("Link Text or Name:")){
		var url = window.prompt("Link Location or URL:")}
	document.GetElementById(loc).write('[link=' && url && ']' && text && '[/link]')
}
//--><!]]>&lt;/script&gt;

and the links as:
<a href="javascript:link()" alt="[Link]"><img src="/img/link.gif" width="20" height="20" alt="[Link]" /></a>

#2- As you can see, I'm trying to write the text with tags to be interpreted later...but how do you write to the I-beam position in the text box/area (the flashing vertical line)? Right now I am just using ".write" but I'm pretty sure that will overwrite....I left the "loc" value of the functions open, just so I can build it in later...

Thanks