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Re: Input Controls

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Gene said:

">
>  1) Position to a particular point in a control's value.  For
> example, if entering a date, it could be much more user-friendly if,
> when the control gets focus, the cursor were positioned just before
> the days as in:
>          201112@29
> where the at-sign represents the cursor.  (In my app-to-be, the date
> is usually in the current month, but not always.)

Hi Gene:

    I picked up and slightly modified the xhtml code below. Maybe you will 
find it useful for positioning your cursor in the middle of a textarea:

HTH
-Mel Smith

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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />

<title>Position Cursor in Textarea block</title>

<script type="text/javascript">

function setCursor(el,st,end) {
 if(el.setSelectionRange) {
  el.focus(); el.setSelectionRange(st,end);
  }
 else {
  if(el.createTextRange) {
   range=el.createTextRange();
   range.collapse(true);
   range.moveEnd('character',end);
   range.moveStart('character',st);
   range.select();
   }
  }
 }
</script>
</head>
<body onload="setCursor(document.getElementById('input1'),13,13);" >
<div>
 <textarea id="input1" name="input1" rows="10" cols="30">Happy kittens 
dancing</textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Input Controls Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-12-29 18:11 -0800
  Re: Input Controls Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2011-12-30 06:40 -0500
  Re: Input Controls Martin Honnen <mahotrash@yahoo.de> - 2011-12-30 12:57 +0100
  Re: Input Controls "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com> - 2011-12-30 10:49 -0700
  Re: Input Controls RobG <rgqld@iinet.net.au> - 2011-12-31 15:21 -0800

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