"Rick Csucsai" wrote:

> Here is my dilemma: I have a text area where a user will type in a story. I
> want them to be able to hit a button that will insert some text (reference
> to an image that I will later parse) into the textarea at the point of the
> cursor. Granted, this is easy enough to add something at the end of the text
> that the user has already typed but what if I want to insert it into the
> middle of pre-typed text. For example:
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> the user types paragraph 1. Then types paragraph 2. They then decide that
> they wanted to insert the image into the middle of paragraph 1. I need for
> them to be able to click where they want the insert at in paragraph 1, hit
> the insert button, and then once the insert is done, they can continue
> typing from where they clicked in paragraph 1.
>
> So how can I tell where the cursor (some call it the caret) is within the
> text area? Anyone have any ideas?
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