smilies to textarea on click

Question

I have a little question

I want to click on my smileys and insert the text to the textarea. and when I want to add a smiley later, the smiley should be added to the

Answer 1

try also this...

$('#emoticons a').click(function() {

    var smiley = $(this).attr('title');

    var cursorIndex = $('#description').attr("selectionStart");
    var lStr =  $('#description').val().substr(0,cursorIndex);
    var rStr = $('#description').val().substr(cursorIndex);

    $('#description').val(lStr+" "+smiley+" "+rStr);

});

Fix after your comment:

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$('#emoticons a').click(
function(){var smiley = $(this).attr('title');

var cursorIndex = $('#description').attr("selectionStart");
var lStr =  $('#description').val().substr(0,cursorIndex) + " " + smiley + " ";
var rStr = $('#description').val().substr(cursorIndex);

$('#description').val(lStr+rStr);
$('#description').attr("selectionStart",lStr.length);                                     
});​

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