Textarea Manupulation to add tags

[hsriat]

So while typing reply, you will type the message in an editor...

I need to make an editor similar to this one (reply editer), which can add [ b ],[ /b ] etc tags to the selected text onclick of the corresponding buttons...

I tried lots of things...

[acoder]

What have you tried so far? If you want to apply styles, you may want to have a look at execCommand.

[hsriat]

What have you tried so far? If you want to apply styles, you may want to have a look at execCommand.

this is too complex... they are on the run adding HTML tags in one frame and generating corresponding HTML in the other.

I just need to add few NON_HTML tags.
I tried createRange() to get selected text and then replacing it with (startTag + selectedText + endTag), but it didn't work.

I need to exactly like the editor here, but with just with B, I and U tags...

[acoder]

This page should help.