[DAL]

Any ideas on how a WYSIWYG editor works;

My main problem is retrieving the cursor/carot postion within an IFrame and how I would understand that positions being marked are between code.

I don't need anything too fancy (no need for tables and floating divs, just really making text colour and weights show)

I bought an editor but it had a ton of holes in the security and It was excessive with the functions. So thought since I've successfully build a BB editor (much like this one) I thought I might be able to build a WYSIWYG editor (actually, like this one - click the top right icon on programming talks new thread editor )

Just need some guidance.

Thanks
Dal

[infinitylimit]

All I have to say is good luck, it might be way more than you realize but here is some code to get you started.

Code:

var text = "";
function getActiveText(e) { 

// Sets text MSIE or Netscape active 
// text based on browser, puts text in form
text = (document.all) ? document.selection.createRange().text : document.getSelection();

document.theform.text.value = text;
return true;
}

document.onmouseup = getActiveText;
if (!document.all) document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEUP);
//  End -->

This takes all the events of mouseup and runs them through the function above. From there text has what you are looking to change.

[DAL]

Thanks for the response your the only one who was bold enough to answer my post!

The above function seems to be using the same kind of thing as my current BB editor that checks the selection and applies the bullet code either side.

As far as what I've tried and read the WYSIWYG editor is based on an IFrame which is set to edit mode but the getSelection can not work with an IFrame or so I've been told, is this correct?

Thanks Dal