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copied!<p>This is alternative solution based on answers from above and more ideas.<br> For IE only (other browsers support this functionality by default).</p> <p>More testing is needed (I tested it just in IE8)</p> <pre><code><script type="text/javascript"> var pos = 0; var len = 0; function pasteIntoInput(text) { var el = document.getElementById("text"); el.focus(); if (typeof el.selectionStart == "number" && typeof el.selectionEnd == "number") { var val = el.value; var selStart = el.selectionStart; el.value = val.slice(0, selStart) + text + val.slice(el.selectionEnd); el.selectionEnd = el.selectionStart = selStart + text.length; } else if (typeof document.selection != "undefined") { //var textRange = document.selection.createRange(); var textRange = el.createTextRange(); // el.focus(); if (len > 0) { //something selected, so replace textRange.collapse(true); textRange.moveEnd('character', pos+len); textRange.moveStart('character', pos); textRange.select(); textRange.text = text; } else { textRange.collapse(true); textRange.moveEnd('character', pos); textRange.moveStart('character', pos); textRange.text = text; textRange.select(); } el.focus(); } } function GetCaretPosition(txtarea) { pos = 0; if (document.selection) { // get current selection var range = document.selection.createRange(); if (range.text.length>0) len=range.text.length; // get full range var rangeFull = document.body.createTextRange(); rangeFull.moveToElementText(txtarea); var sel_start; for (sel_start = 0; rangeFull.compareEndPoints('StartToStart', range) < 0; sel_start++) { rangeFull.moveStart('character', 1); } pos = sel_start; } } </script> </code></pre>

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