Registered: Sep 2000
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 284

Speaking of annoying little problems

Is anyone else annoyed that the editor in the forums inserts the html codes at the end of the message instead of where the cursor is? I can't count the number of impolite words I've muttered when trying to add smilies in the middle of my document, only to have them show up at the end only.

It's probably not something that can be changed, but it would be a nice touch, IMHO.

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Registered: Aug 2000
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1062

Yes, I have noted this. I just cut and paste it where I want it.

Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Out of my skull, back in five minutes
Posts: 1435

Ditto K-C. It's some kind of scripting thing.

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Registered: Feb 2000
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Posts: 165

Well, JavaScript does have its limitations... AFAIK there's no way to determine with JavaScript the exact location of the cursor within an HTML Form <TEXTAREA>... but you can read the contents of a textarea into a variable, append whatever you want (A smilie, fr'instance), and replace the old contents with the new variable, effectively adding the smilie code at the end. You could add it at the beginning instead, but that would be even less useful.

-Andy

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