how to Drag and Drop text into a form

[Mouse77e]

Good Morning all,

I am looking for a solution to a problem and I need your suggestions.

I run a reunion site that like many other sites is form based, submission dependant. I have built in some tweaks and eye candy to make it user friendly but there is one flaw that I need to fix and that is uniformity in the submissions.

The site search, tooltips and some other features such as external links are based on keywords which in turn are Nomenclature. What I would like to do is provide a method where I can provide a list of the keywords on one of the page and along side it a text box for writing and editing the submission. Ideally I’d like to drag and drop keywords into the text box where they are needed.

I hope I have made this clear, if not please do ask for clarification.

My question is, is there a solution out there already, I have googled this and can’t find anything… if not what language can I tackle this in? while I know CSS, HTML and a little PHP but no JavaScript so I may need a little help if this is the best road to go down…

Many thanks

Mouse :)

[Kravvitz]

If this was possible you would have to use JavaScript to do it, but I don't think this is possible -- I don't think JavaScript could accurately detect where the text was to be dropped.

You could make the list of words clickable and have them appear where the cursor is in the textarea.