[sudidelaravindra]

I have a small application which has Textarea control,textbox control,and a button control.I have some text in the Textarea control.when i select some part of the text in the Textarea control and pressed a button,that selected text along with the starting index and ending index should be displayed in the textbox.i have achieved of capturing the selected text into the textbox but i couldn't able to trace starting and ending index of selected text.Along with this requirement, i should get the selected text in bold style in the textarea control so that selected text could be differentiable.

Note: Need to use javascript.

can you plz help me out.....
Thanks

[TwoD]

If you have the selected text, you can do something like this:

Code:

startIndex=textArea.value.indexOf(selectedText)
endIndex=startIndex+selectedText.length

I just took a quick look at the sourcecode of this forum to see how they did it. And as I feared it's a fairly complex task to insert text around a selection. But the forum manages to do it both in IE and Mozilla based browsers.