Question

I need to insert some text into a textarea at the place where the cursor is, how can i do this without jquery?

Answer 1

You may want to check the small code sample at:

• Inserting at the cursor using JavaScript

Code from the above article:

function insertAtCursor(myField, myValue) {

  if (document.selection) {
    myField.focus();
    sel = document.selection.createRange();
    sel.text = myValue;
  }
  else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == '0') {
    var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
    var endPos = myField.selectionEnd;

    myField.value = myField.value.substring(0, startPos)
                  + myValue
                  + myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.value.length);
  } else {
    myField.value += myValue;
  }
}

// calling the function
insertAtCursor(document.getElementById('textarea_id'), 'sometext');