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Apr 26.2004

Is it possible to track the current line number and character number of the the textarea and display them in the status bar?Can anyone show me some codes?Thanks

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@FangApr 27.2004 — <textarea rows="5" cols="10" name="myinput" onkeydown="window.status='characters: '+(myinput.value.length-1)+' lines: '+Math.floor((myinput.value.length-1)/10);"></textarea>
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@azure_ssauthorApr 27.2004 — Thank you very much.

But how about if I want the line # and character position where the current cursor is?Anyway to do that?
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@FangApr 27.2004 — Adapt [URL=http://www.alexking.org/blog/2003/06/02/inserting-at-the-cursor-using-javascript/]this[/URL], or read these from [URL=http://forums.webdeveloper.com/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=231735&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending]this forum[/URL]
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