[thelist] JS for creating html styles/links

[Peter-Paul Koch]

>I'm figuring there has to be lots of JavaScripts available that will
>allow non-html-savy people to insert <strong> <em> <a> <p> <hx> tags, etc
>into <textarea>s. I've seen a few good ones that were Active-X controls,
>and one Flash one that was excellent: looks like a
>mini-version of Word. But don't want to go that route. Want
>DOM-compliant JavaScript! Would do it myself, but am coming up with a quote
>and am seeing I need to efficiently cut corners.

It's surprisingly difficult to write a cross-browser script for this. As far
as I know it's not possible, for instance, to find the cursor position in
the textarea in Mozilla.

So in my experience it's not possible to write a cross-browser script. As to
an IE-only JavaScript, why bother when there are already components that do
what you want? 'DOM compliant' is very relative in the respect: for any IE
compatibility whatsoever you must use a whole bloody lot of MS-proprietary
stuff.

My advice is to either use the ActiveX scripts (which of course will only
work in IE Windows) or forget all about it.

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