Specifying Where To Focus Within Textarea

Question

I have a textarea...

Some writing here
*
Then some more on another line

What I want to do is focus the u

Answer 1

just to make your burden lighter.

Some writing here
*
Then some more on another line



function FocusMe(what){ // what = character to be focused(in your case *)
 var cFocus = document.getElemenById("myarea").innerHTML;
 var pos = cFocus.indexOf(what);
 setSelRange(document.getElementById('myarea'), pos, pos); //Jame's answer above.
}