xul and text area interaction

Interested in using xul <button label> to interact with the text in the <textarea> of an html page.

Example would be like the "B" button on this posting page. You click the "B" button and a popup window appears asking you to enter the text you want surrounded with <b></b>.

I am interested in doing the same thing with xul. Could someone point me in the right direction. Yes, I will be reading the docs and all the links provided in this forum. Thanks.

Ok - you would actually use javascript just like the board does here to do it.

Now, with that said - you are using XUL, so a more robust solution would be just to create a WYSIWYG editor to format the code within the <textarea> with real-time preview.

Check out some of the projects on mozdev.org - download a few of them and have a peak at the code to see how they have done it.

If you still want to do it like this forum does, just save a forum page and look through the javascript to get an idea of how they do it.

thanks for the suggestions

i've been through those steps before. the current projects - like mozile or bitflux (which isn't a moz* project) are pretty much what i'm after. just want to have the text in a textarea <form> instead of just a #content (js) area.

thanks for the attempt anyway.