Thanks, I'll check it out. I've turned up similar in Google, and they  
are really YMMV solutions. I'll try to get a somewhat general  
solution and post it somewhere. My Moz implementation is to create a  
TextArea class to encapsulate this with the control as an instance  
variable. Does this make sense or should I be extending something?

Thx

On Nov 12, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Brian Williams wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >


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