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Originally posted by DavioOk, just tested it again and it now keeps the selected text highlighted. Cool.

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Originally posted by Nathan

The funny thing is, IE leaves it selected, but doesn't highlight the selection to let you know that its selected. Thats what I was wondering if it's an IE bug. (After inserting a set of tags in IE, there is nothing highlighted but if you press a key it replaces the tags and everthing in between with that letter.)

Maybe its just my IE. Or maybe the wanted it like that, who knows.

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function AddText(text) {
	var tarea = document.PostTopic.Message;
	if (tarea.selectionStart){ // if it supports DOM2
		start = tarea.selectionStart;
		end = tarea.selectionEnd;
		tarea.value = tarea.value.substr(0,tarea.selectionStart) 
			+ text + tarea.value.substr(tarea.selectionEnd);
		tarea.focus();
		tarea.selectionStart = ((start - end) == 0) ? start + text.length : start;
		tarea.selectionEnd = start + text.length;
	} else {
		if (tarea.createTextRange && tarea.caretPos) { 
			var caretPos = tarea.caretPos; 
			caretPos.text = caretPos.text.charAt(caretPos.text.length - 1) == ' ' ?   text + ' ' : text; 
		} 
		else {
			tarea.value += text; 
		}
		tarea.focus(caretPos); 
	} 
}

function AddText(text) {
	var tarea = document.PostTopic.Message;
	if (typeof tarea.selectionStart != 'undefined'){ // if it supports DOM2
		start = tarea.selectionStart;
		end = tarea.selectionEnd;
		tarea.value = tarea.value.substr(0,tarea.selectionStart) 
			+ text + tarea.value.substr(tarea.selectionEnd);
		tarea.focus();
		tarea.selectionStart = ((start - end) == 0) ? start + text.length : start;
		tarea.selectionEnd = start + text.length;
	} else {
		if (tarea.createTextRange && tarea.caretPos) { 
			var caretPos = tarea.caretPos; 
			caretPos.text = caretPos.text.charAt(caretPos.text.length - 1) == ' ' ?   text + ' ' : text; 
		} 
		else {
			tarea.value += text; 
		}
		tarea.focus(caretPos); 
	} 
}

function getText() {
	var tarea = document.PostTopic.Message;
	if (tarea.createTextRange && tarea.caretPos) {
		return tarea.caretPos.text;
	} else if (typeof tarea.selectionStart != 'undefined'){
		return tarea.value.substr(tarea.selectionStart,tarea.selectionEnd-tarea.selectionStart)
	}
	return '';
}