(SORTED, thanx) Cursor location

Is it possible using JS to find the cursor location. I'll explain why and there may be another way.

I've got a textarea and I type say 'hello this is a test, blah blah' and my cursor is postioned just after the word 'is'. I want to be able to click a button and insert some text there or anywhere, where my cursor is located.

Is this possible?

yes, it is, but it requires a lot of code. What you want to do is return the position of the caret in the text box rather than the whole mouse position.

http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/...d/1052/fid/130

If you are interested you can get the mouse position too.

http://getelementbyid.com/tutorials/...se/index.shtml