Input text where selected

[Extreme43]

Hello all
happy new years

Im not good at javascript but have got this code to input text into the textbox with tags

but what i want to do is to replace only the selected text instead of the whole thing
i have mucked around with it but cant seem to get anything

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function seeTextArea (form,tag) {
if (document.form1.text.value != '')
{
document.form1.text.value = '<' + tag + '>' + form.text.value + '</' + tag + '>'
alert (form.text.value);
}
}

</SCRIPT>

can anyone help ?

 

[chessbot]

Search for getSelectionStart() and getSelectionEnd(), I believe.

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