Email conversation
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | reg cursor positioning in textarea |
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| Date | 11 April 2005 11:39 |
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hi
i found ur site very useful.
i have a question
how to set the cursor position in the textarea
i hope to get a response from u
thanks & regards
mahitha
| From | Me |
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| To | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| Subject | Re: reg cursor positioning in textarea |
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| Date | 11 April 2005 17:08 |
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Mahitha,
> how to set the cursor position in the textarea
function setCursorPosition(oInput,oStart,oEnd) {
oInput.focus();
if( oInput.setSelectionRange ) {
oInput.setSelectionRange(oStart,oEnd);
} else if( oInput.createTextRange ) {
var range = oInput.createTextRange();
range.collapse(true);
range.moveEnd('character',oEnd);
range.moveStart('character',oStart);
range.select();
}
}
Now you can do this to put the cursor after the 5th character:
setCursorPosition(document.myform.mytextarea,5,5);
Or to select the third character:
setCursorPosition(document.myform.mytextarea,2,3);
This should work in Internet Explorer on Windows, Mozilla
1.3+/Firefox/Netscape 7+, Opera 8+. On other browsers, it will put the
cursor in the textarea, but will not be able to position it correctly.
[Ed. this also works in Safari 1.2+, and Konqueror 3.5.2+]
Note the difference between different platforms. If your textarea
contains linebreaks, these linebreaks should be a single character on
mac and linux/unix, and two characters on Windows.
Hope this is what you needed.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: reg cursor positioning in textarea |
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| Date | 12 April 2005 06:47 |
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Thank you Jones for a quick response.
[Ed. Jones? Jones?! Foo! :P ]
Regards
Mahitha K.
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | roundrect tabs |
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| Date | 13 April 2005 11:07 |
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Hi ,
I want roundrect tabs in css.Can u plz help me in this.
Thank you.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| Subject | Re: roundrect tabs |
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| Date | 13 April 2005 11:46 |
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> I want roundrect tabs in css.Can u plz help me in this.
a tutorial for this:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/slidingdoors/
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: roundrect tabs |
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| Date | 13 April 2005 12:42 |
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Thank you
Mahitha K.
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | |
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| Date | 5 May 2005 13:20 |
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Hi,
I am trying to make textarea work as textbox i am discarding enter key
stroke using onkeydown event. but if i paste multiline content it is
allowing the content.
So i want to know
-how to disable paste operation in textarea ? or
-how to restrict paste operation to paste only a single sentence not
more than 1 sentence.
Plz let me know abt this.Hope u will respond me soon.
Thank you.
Regards,
Mahitha K.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| Subject | Re: discarding line breaks in a textarea |
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| Date | 5 May 2005 14:04 |
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Mathia,
> -how to restrict paste operation to paste only a single sentence not
> more than 1 sentence.
<textarea ... onchange="this.value=this.value.replace(/[\r\n]+/,' ');">
or some other appropriate replacement
Tarquin
PS. please include a subject when sending emails
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: discarding line breaks in a textarea |
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| Date | 5 May 2005 15:30 |
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Tarquin,
Thank you very much for ur quick response.
I have another issue
We have reports that take lot of time
Once the user clicks a report link We are starting a seperate
thread for report execution
and showing a loading page which refreshes every 15 secs to check
the report status
<script>
setTimeout("callit()",15000);
function callit()
{
location.replace('checkStatus.do?requestedReportKey=12344');
}
</script>
This is working perfect for normal html reports, in the sense that
after getting the report if i click back button i donot see the loading
page as i am replacing
but when we download the report as excel sheet its not affecting ie
back button still shows me the loading page.
I hope u will help me for this issue also.
Thank you Tarquin.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| Subject | Re: discarding line breaks in a textarea |
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| Date | 5 May 2005 23:09 |
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Mahitha,
> but when we download the report as excel sheet its not affecting ie
> back button still shows me the loading page.
That is because the excel spreadsheet is not loaded natively by the browser,
so the history entry is discarded, reverting back to the loading page. I do
not know any way to avoid this issue.
Tarquin
| From | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Reg onkeypress |
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| Date | 18 May 2005 15:44 |
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Hi Tarquin ,
How r u?
My problem is when i enter some text in textbox and press enter key then
same page should open.
I am using this.<INPUT name=title size=70 value="title"
onkeypress=history.go(0);>
.Its working but not allowing me to edit the text in text box.
Plz reply me.
Thank you.
Regards,
Mahitha K.
| From | Me |
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| To | Mahitha Kancherla |
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| Subject | Re: discarding line breaks in a textarea |
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| Date | 18 May 2005 20:35 |
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> I am using this.<INPUT name=title size=70 value="title"
> onkeypress=history.go(0);>
You need to check what key is being pressed, and bypass all the browser
incompatibilities. I suggest you read my event information page:
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/tutorials/javascript/eventinfo
function checkKey(e) {
if(!e) { e = window.event; } if(!e) { return; }
if( typeof( e.which ) == 'number' ) {
e = e.which;
} else if( typeof( e.keyCode ) == 'number' ) {
e = e.keyCode;
} else if( typeof( e.charCode ) == 'number' ) {
e = e.charCode;
}
if( e == 13 ) { history.go(0); }
}
<INPUT name=title size=70 value="title" onkeypress="checkKey(arguments[0]);">