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Dec 09.2006

Hi,

I’m really new to web work so please bare with me.

I have a text area and need to insert text into it when a user presses a button. It needs to work exactly like the ‘insert link’ option on this website, where a pop up opens allowing the user to enter text, which is then inserted along with the bbcode to turn it into a link.

If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be great.

Thank you

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@mrhooDec 10.2006 — buttonref.onclick=function(textarearef.value='some text'};
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@KorDec 10.2006 — buttonref.onclick=function(textarearef.value='some text'};[/QUOTE]
grandad looks like a beginner so that it might not understand what buttonref or textarearef might be.

<i>
</i>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Script-Type" content="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;
&lt;body&gt;
&lt;form&gt;
&lt;input type="button" value="Insert text" onclick="this.form['myTextarea'].value='Lorem ipsum'"&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;textarea name="myTextarea"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
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@mrhooDec 10.2006 — Good point, Kor.
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