ah, ok... quick googling found
http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=118115 which lead to http://parentnode.org/javascript/working-with-the-cursor-position/ good luck and make sure you read through the comments and don't just carbon copy the code cause its "wrong" but the code in the comments evidently make it much easier On Nov 12, 2007 2:36 PM, s.ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to create a special-purpose editor that does live previewing. It's > kind of UBB, but of course, all UBBs have their own peculiar syntaxes and > use cases. > Sample: > > - user selects text in textarea > - user presses bold button in interface > - text -> [b]text[/b] > > Nothing too fancy, just different in IE and the documentation is very > sparse. Thought if someone on this list had some code lying around it would > be worth knowing before I write it myself. > > Thx > > On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Brian Williams wrote: > > selection to what end? > > > On Nov 12, 2007 2:17 PM, s.ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm struggling a bit with the disparity between how Moz and IE handle > > selection in textarea objects. Does anyone have any prototype- > > leveraging code that encapsulates this kind of thing? The Moz part is > > pretty straightforward and I have it working. The IE stuff is a bit > > of a mystery to me. > > > > TIA, > > > > -s > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
