I found some code on stackoverflow that inserts text from a text input field into a textarea at the cursor location. What I want to do is modify this working code so the user can enter a URL with Title text into two form input fields, build a complete hypertext link from the input and insert the resulting HTML for the anchor tag into th...
Hello, I'm building an app that spits out an email...The email has a url in in a textarea (along with some other copy) for copying and pasting (like into a blog/forum post). So I output this: <textarea>http://www.somesite.com/your-link</textarea> and gmail does this: <textarea> <a href = 'http://www.somesite.com/your-link'>...
I am trying to print unicode in a JTextArea. I have gotten it to print fine to the console but when I try to print it to the textarea, I get boxes for all of the two byte unicode characters. Any help would be much appreciated. package edu.afit.jieddo; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class JTe...
My previous AS2 buttons have dynamic text in front of them. By not making them selectable I can click on all of the surface of the button. However, in AS3 most of the button cannot be clicked, as I have this dynamic textfield in front of it. Since I need to be able to change the button label, I need the label text to be dynamic. Any i...
Here is my problem, fairly obvious: [img at bottom] The problem, as you can see, is that the text (height and width) is nothing like the Height and Width of the compoent (Spark TextArea) that I have set via the Main.mxml file in Flex 4. This is pissing me off so much because nobody can tell me why this is happening, or how to fix it. ...
Hey all, I'm trying to create a textarea that will highlight some keywords as the user types in there. I understant textarea can only support plain text and that I have to use a 'rich text' editor in order to achieve this. I would like something really simple though and not the bloated 'rich editors' out there. Any ideas? Thanks! ...
Hi there, Thank you for reading. I'm trying to create a HTML form so that my friend can type text into it and thereafter, updates his web site with whatever is typed into the form. I'm trying to create a HTML form (on a php page) which posts whatever is entered within it's textarea to the home.php file. However, rather than simply do a ...
I've had a look round the web for solutions, and there are some, but they all seem to split code into supporting IE and Firefox. I was wondering if there's a more elegant way which would work on every browser, to insert some text at the cursor in a textarea. Thanks very much, Rich ...
How to tell if TextArea is selected or not. I want to save automatically when user changes the focus from TextArea. I tried to look into addFocusHandler() and addBlurHandler() but couldn't figure out how to tell if it is selected or not. ...
Hey all, I can't figure this one out.. I'm trying to get rid of that blue glow when textarea is highlighted in firefox. Here's my CSS: textarea { margin:0; padding:0; width: 598px; height: 600px; resize: none; outline: none; } :focus { outline:0; outline:none; } It removes it in safari, but ...
What I want: So I have a textarea. I write Hello World into the the textarea. I want to get the Hello World's Height in Javascript. What I have tried yet: element = document.getElementById('textarea'); var textHeight = element.innerHTML.offsetHeight; or this: var textHeight = element.value.offsetHeight; But t...
i have text input and select boxes be at a width of 40px... i want the text within these elements to be in the bottom half of the input field. I have successfully been able to do this in firefox (but NOT safari or chrome) by setting padding-top: 20px. i need this to work for safari and chrome however, these browsers seem to auto vertic...
Suppose you have a textarea (id="fred") that appends (.append()) or replaces (.html()) another element. The textarea's submit button is called via delegate to send the modified text blurb in the textarea... How do you select the modified textblurb, as opposed to what was originally put in the textarea via the first delegate? ...
I can't believe there isn't a standard way of doing this, but I'm submitting content from a textarea to a Rails controller, and it doesn't seem to preserve the line breaks (of any form). Here is my view code: f.text_area :keywords, :cols => 50, :rows => 10 submit_to_remote 'button', "#{t "add_keywords"}", :html => {:id => 'add...
I want to escape HTML tags to entity names, taking text from a textarea and putting the result in a second textarea such that: <mytag> becomes <mytag> I'm using .html() and .text() going back and forth OK. My problem is dealing with the textarea element, which acts a little different.... It works fine if I first place the text ...
I have a textarea. When I paste text with line breaks into it, the line breaks are automatically removed. But when I manually enter line breaks (hitting carraige return), they are preserved. How do I force the textarea to preserve line breaks with pasted text? ...
I have this in my body and it works onLoad='document.forms.post.message.focus()' but I need the cursor to be placed in the textarea at the beginning of any existing text, not at the end. This puts it at the end. Note that I know nothing about JavaScript, so be gentle. Thanks ...
I have a piece of HTML code which contains a textarea. I am doing a GVT testing by inputting a mxed characters such as abcأبجABC in this text area. The display of the string is correct in the RTL mode. H...
I've been trying to use localStorage with a textarea in my webpage (to no avail). My save script is as follows: $(function() { var editor = document.querySelector("#editor"); editor.addEventListener("keyup", function() { window.localStorage["TextEditorData"] = editor.value; }); }); My load script is as follows: $window.load(fun...
Is it possible to text indent each line in a textarea? I'm using a handwritten font and the first letter on each line is getting cut off slightly. I've already used padding and margin, but this does not work. Many thanks. Erik ...