//Textbox on which to be pasted
<input type="text" id="txtOnWhichToBePasted" />
//Textbox from where to be pasted
<input type="text" id="txtFromWhichToBePasted" />
//Button on which click the text to be pasted
<input type="button" id="btnInsert" value="Insert"/>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#btnInsert').bind('click', function () {
var TextToBePasted = $('#txtFromWhichToBePasted').value;
var ControlOnWhichToBePasted = $('#txtOnWhichToBePasted');
//Paste the Text
PasteTag(ControlOnWhichToBePasted, TextToBePasted);
});
});
//Function Pasting The Text
function PasteTag(ControlOnWhichToBePasted,TextToBePasted) {
//Get the position where to be paste
var CaretPos = 0;
// IE Support
if (document.selection) {
ControlOnWhichToBePasted.focus();
var Sel = document.selection.createRange();
Sel.moveStart('character', -ctrl.value.length);
CaretPos = Sel.text.length;
}
// Firefox support
else if (ControlOnWhichToBePasted.selectionStart || ControlOnWhichToBePasted.selectionStart == '0')
CaretPos = ControlOnWhichToBePasted.selectionStart;
//paste the text
var WholeString = ControlOnWhichToBePasted.value;
var txt1 = WholeString.substring(0, CaretPos);
var txt2 = WholeString.substring(CaretPos, WholeString.length);
WholeString = txt1 + TextToBePasted + txt2;
var CaretPos = txt1.length + TextToBePasted.length;
ControlOnWhichToBePasted.value = WholeString;
//update The cursor position
setCaretPosition(ControlOnWhichToBePasted, CaretPos);
}
function setCaretPosition(ControlOnWhichToBePasted, pos) {
if (ControlOnWhichToBePasted.setSelectionRange) {
ControlOnWhichToBePasted.focus();
ControlOnWhichToBePasted.setSelectionRange(pos, pos);
}
else if (ControlOnWhichToBePasted.createTextRange) {
var range = ControlOnWhichToBePasted.createTextRange();
range.collapse(true);
range.moveEnd('character', pos);
range.moveStart('character', pos);
range.select();
}
}
</script>
jQuery("#btn").on('click', function() {
var $txt = jQuery("#txt");
var caretPos = $txt[0].selectionStart;
var textAreaTxt = $txt.val();
var txtToAdd = "stuff";
$txt.val(textAreaTxt.substring(0, caretPos) + txtToAdd + textAreaTxt.substring(caretPos) );
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<textarea id="txt" rows="15" cols="70">There is some text here.</textarea>
<input type="button" id="btn" value="OK" />
function insertAtCaret(areaId, text) {
var txtarea = document.getElementById(areaId);
var scrollPos = txtarea.scrollTop;
var caretPos = txtarea.selectionStart;
var front = (txtarea.value).substring(0, caretPos);
var back = (txtarea.value).substring(txtarea.selectionEnd, txtarea.value.length);
txtarea.value = front + text + back;
caretPos = caretPos + text.length;
txtarea.selectionStart = caretPos;
txtarea.selectionEnd = caretPos;
txtarea.focus();
txtarea.scrollTop = scrollPos;
}