Question

i am trying to create a textbox which will accept a emoticon image as part of its text.

Any sugestions?

Answer 1

Tell your textbox that you want it to display rich text. When you write text, replace your emoticons with HTML <img> tags pointing to the emoticon picture.

Edit : example with a smiley example (:-))

In your text box, you want to replace the :-) smiley with this picture : . Assume that the picture is in a file called “smile.jpg”. When you write text, replace :-) by <img src="my/path/to/smile.jpg" alt=":-)"/>. When you write a backspace to erase the smiley, you can replace the whole HTML <img> tag by :- (:-) without the final ))