> What the documentation doesn't note is that, if you create a 
> new range, the range is created at the beginning of the text 
> area.  So when you create a new textRange in your textarea, 
> the range is at at 0-0, so a negative number will move to to 
> 0 (negative values don't
> work) and a positive number will move from the start point of 
> the textbox - not the selection.

Err.. ok, that's right. My bad. But...

> In order to get the cursor positioned, you want to move 
> relative to the selection (it'll be relative to the end of 
> the seelction, regardless of the direction the text was 
> selected in), and then reselect the text range.  I'm not sure 
> why that works, but it does (if this wasn't IE and it's pile 
> of quirks, I'd research it until I knew - but it's probably 
> "just the way it is" rather than for any good reason).  Use 
> these two lines instead of your last line where you create a 
> new area, and it should work better.
> 
>  aSel.move('character',-4)
>  aSel.select();

Nope, still does bzactly the same thing. Also tried...

..humm....

...hang on, I didn't have that aSel.select(); in there...

Well I'll be a monkeys... Whatever...

It was the missing .select() that was tripping me up. I guess you can move
the range as you please, but until you tell it to become the selection... 

Well, yes, now that I read the docs over again, that is exactly what it
says... 

Thanks! But...

Now I have another problem. While I was waiting for a reply here, I came up
with another solution that I like better... I think...

I added the following: 

if (aSel.text=='') { 
	aSel.moveStart('character',-100000);
	if (aSel.text.lastIndexOf(startTxt) > aSel.text.lastIndexOf(endTxt))

		startTxt=''; 
	else 
		endTxt='';
	aSel.collapse(false);
	}

So that if you are outside of a bold block, it adds only the <b> and if you
are inside the bold, it adds only the </b>. E.g. if you click the B you get
first <b> then you can type your text and when you click the B the second
time you get </b>

Which do you think is better?

I also added hotkeys: Ctrl+B for Bold, Ctrl+I for italic, etc...

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