need help with <textarea> & <input>

[AsianGirl]

I'm currently working on this script and there's a little javascript problem that i can't seem to find out what's going on

<input type="text" name="Subject" maxlength="{$config['subjectlength']}" class="formboxes" size="60" value="$Subject" onkeyup="myvalue(this,event);" />

<textarea cols="$TextCols" rows="$TextRows" class="formboxes" name="Message" onkeyup="storeCaret(this); myvalue(this,event);" onclick="storeCaret(this);"></textarea>

As you can see i have a Subject box & Message box, anyway my problem is ...when i type stuff in the textarea box ...and click to choose a smiley ...all my texts disappear/erase and replace by a smiley

can anyone help me to fix this problem ?? it's frustrated if you typed a really long message and click a smiley ...the whole thing get erase and replace by a smiley ....

i'm not sure if my question is clear but ....hopefully someone in here is able to understand my question and help me out...thanks a million

[Flawless_koder]

I understand entirely.

1) Where do the variables get populated though ?
$TextCols, for example ...
I'm just curious what langauge is parsing this for you.

2) Can you post the function you are using to add smileys, please? I think I know what's wrong with it - but I'd need to see it to be sure.

G

[adios]

This is pretty vague....

...when i type stuff in the textarea box ...and click to choose a smiley ...

Hmm...click a button (educated guess) and call a function...yes? Does the function do this?

document.Message.value = ':)';

...or something similar? If so, you need to concatenate (add) that shmilie to the end of what's already there:

document.Message.value += ':)';

Otherwise, never mind.

[beetle]

Steal what code you need from this

www.peterbailey.net/dhtml/taeditor.htm