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1. javascript - replace character at specific position in textarea    stackoverflow.com

is it posible to replace a character at a specific position within a textarea or textbox? I can work out the position using indexOf() but knowing this how can i ...

2. Detect return key in textarea and if a certain string is present write a line to textarea [javascript]    stackoverflow.com

Basically have a large textarea, and I want to be able to do a few things with it;

1. Detect when the user presses "enter" to go to a new line, and
2. When enter is ...

3. How do you make linebreaks in a HTML textarea result in breaks in the string?    stackoverflow.com

I have a HTML <textarea> that I want to be able to make when the user pushes enter in the textarea it results in a linebreak when the string is stored ...

4. Populating a textarea from several textfields    stackoverflow.com

I have several textfields which will populate a text area. I managed to populate it with a javascript function. On the onblur event of a textfield, the value of the textfield is ...

5. using a switch with strings in javascript    stackoverflow.com

my switch is not working properly when analyzing a string variable. output and input are both textareas. please help.

function thinkInput(e)
{
if (e.keyCode == 13)
{
    sInput = document.interface.input.value;
   ...

6. How do I read a list from a textarea with Javascript?    stackoverflow.com

I am trying to read in a list of words separated by spaces from a textbox with Javascript. This will eventually be in a website. Thank you.

7. Replace/Add string in textarea in js    stackoverflow.com

I have a textarea and some buttons. Onclick of each button I have to do following:

1. Check if textarea contains some text XXX.
2. If contains then remove it.
3. If not then add it.

8. Make space or special character between fetched contents    stackoverflow.com

Thanks for helping to solve a problem at: .val() and .text() don't work? Now I have a new question, look at my problem in: http://jsfiddle.net/arlopa/B5aTC/ When you click on "submit", this ...

9. Return string from javascript function and display in text area.    coderanch.com

Dear Ranchers, I want to reverse the string "somestring" and display it in the same text area when I click the link "Reverse" in my jsp page. Here is the code that I am working on, but i see no change in my jsp page. I am not sure if the javascript is returning the string. How do I go about ...

10. remove wrong strings from textarea    codingforums.com

Well you should look into split on \n and \s You should loop through that. Put the values into an array and increment number of times they are there. Calculate which ones are bad and use replace to get rid of them. Show us some code and where you get stuck. You will not learn anything by not coding it. Eric ...

11. Get string on visual line (not wordwrapped) in a wordwrapped textarea?    forums.devshed.com

Hi is there an easy way (method, property) to get the string occupying a "visual line" in a wordwrapped textarea? What I mean by visual line: A string of characters that does not spill into the line below it and occupies one line on the textarea, even if this line strays into the right-side scrolling portion of the textarea. How would ...

12. Remove wrong strings from textarea    forums.devshed.com

Bals28mjk, this problem has absolutely nothing to do with regular expressions, and you described a method for transforming the text into a two dimensional array, which doesn't answer his question. It's a good (and trivial) first step, but the job's hardly "finito" until some hairy, computer sciency statistical analysis functions are coded. Mudoeb, are you able to "train" your program with ...

13. Replace string in this same textarea    forums.devshed.com

14. Get string on visual line (not wordwrapped) in a wordwrapped textarea?    phpfreaks.com

Hi is there an easy way (method, property) to get the string occupying a "visual line" in a wordwrapped textarea? What I mean by visual line: A string of characters that does not spill into the line below it and occupies one line on the textarea, even if this line strays into the right-side scrolling portion of the textarea. How would ...

15. Insert string into textarea    sitepoint.com

I need to insert a string into a textarea, where the cursor is when a button is clicked. I tried google for this one, but all I found was how to change the text in the textarea, and how to append something to the end, but not how to insert where the cursor is. Does anyone know how to, or have ...