cursor postion in textarea

[Nivetha]

i have a list box and one textarea i am trying to pull the tags from list box (on click on the tags of my list box or onclick of a button )into my textarea whereever the cursor is focused but without clicking my textarea its adding only in the first.if i click in the textarea it adding properly.

function setCursorPos() {
globalCursorPos = getCursorPos(FileColumnData.messageText);


}


function getCursorPos(textElement) {

var sOldText = textElement.value;

var objRange = document.selection.createRange();
var sOldRange = objRange.text;

var sWeirdString = '#%~';

objRange.text = sOldRange + sWeirdString; objRange.moveStart('character', (0 - sOldRange.length - sWeirdString.length));

var sNewText = textElement.value;

objRange.text = sOldRange;

for (i=1; i <= sNewText.length; i++)
{
var sTemp = sNewText.substring(i, i + sWeirdString.length);
if (sTemp == sWeirdString) {
var cursorPos = (i - sOldRange.length);
return cursorPos;
}
}

return 0;
}


function insertdata() //for button
{
var msg = document.FileColumnData.columnData.value;
var firstPart = FileColumnData.messageText.value.substring(0,globa lCursorPos);
var secondPart = FileColumnData.messageText.value.substring(globalC ursorPos,FileColumnData.messageText.value.length);
document.FileColumnData.messageText.value = firstPart + msg + secondPart ;
document.FileColumnData.messageText.focus();

}

function insertString(stringToInsert)//for list box
{
var firstPart = FileColumnData.messageText.value.substring(0, globalCursorPos);
var secondPart = FileColumnData.messageText.value.substring(globalC ursorPos,FileColumnData.messageText.value.length);
document.FileColumnData.messageText.value = firstPart + stringToInsert + secondPart;
document.FileColumnData.messageText.focus();
}

[acoder]

Welcome to TSDN!

Why not give focus to the textarea first?