javascript replace selection all browsers

Question

Is there a simple js function I can use to replace the current document\'s selection with some html of mine?

For instance say the document contains a

Answer 1

You can use the Rangy library http://code.google.com/p/rangy/

You can then do

var sel = rangy.getSelection();
var range = sel.getRangeAt(0);

range.deleteContents();
var node = range.createContextualFragment('hoho');
range.insertNode(node);