get the cursor's position in textarea

[adema_]

i have a textarea and want to add a text at the cursor's position.

is there a way to archieve this? it should work on netscape and IE.

[khalidali63]

You should run a search in this forums threads,Dave had a link posted to this some time ago.
:D

[adema_]

sure i saw that, but it doesn't work with Netscape7.0. There is a problem with the selection and the the text is always added in the end.

[Charles]

It will also fail for all of the MSIE users who do not use JavaScript. Consider this: 93% of users use MSIE (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/March/browser.php) but only 90% of users use JavaScript (http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2003/March/javas.php) (and fewer than that recognize the W3C DOM). It follows then that if you are making a page that's JavaScript dependent then you are already cutting yourself off from more people than you would be if you made your page MSIE dependent so don't worry about it. But that if your page works as well with as without JavaScript then the Netscape users will be happy as will the JavaScript free MSIE users, so don't worry about it.