Advanced Textarea

[djp1988]

I wish to try and develop my very own kind of text editor, I wish to create a small gif image and by clicking it, you may insert a url for an image, this would be placed at the sport your cursor was last at in the textarea, how can i detect the place the cursor was using javascript? I see there is going to be a problem as a script would need to see where the cursor was before the script is launched, so how could I do this? A tracking script that returns the last reference to where the cursor was?

[Synook]

Do you mean the cursor or the caret? Because when you click the button to insert the image, the cursor has to be over that button...

[rnd me]

how can i detect the place the cursor was using javascript?

in firefox it's easy: textArea.selectionStart.IE is a little more complicated.you can use http://javascript.nwbox.com/cursor_position/cursor.js to help out.