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+function getSelection(text)
+{
+   if (browser == 'MSIE') {
+      sel = document.selection;
+      rng = sel.createRange();
+      rng.colapse;
+      return rng.text; 
+   } else if (browser == 'Mozilla')
+      return text.value.substring(text.selectionStart, text.selectionEnd);
+   else 
+      return "";
+}
+
+function replaceSelection(text, newSelection, cursorPos)
+{
+   if (browser == 'MSIE') {
+      text.focus();
+      sel = document.selection;
+      rng = sel.createRange();
+      rng.colapse;
+      is_sel = rng.text.length > 0;
+      rng.text = newSelection;
+      if (!is_sel) {
+         rng.moveStart('character', -(newSelection.length-cursorPos));
+         rng.moveEnd('character', -(newSelection.length-cursorPos));
+         rng.select();
+      }
+   } else if (browser == 'Mozilla') {
+      start = text.selectionStart;
+      stop  = text.selectionEnd;
+      end   = text.textLength;
+      endtext = text.value.substring(stop, end);
+      starttext = text.value.substring(0,	start);
+      text.value = starttext + newSelection + endtext;
+      if (start != stop) {
+         text.selectionStart = start;
+         text.selectionEnd   = start + newSelection.length;
+      } else {
+         text.selectionStart = start +	cursorPos;
+         text.selectionEnd   = text.selectionStart;
+      }
+   } else
+      text += newSelection;
+}
+
+function elcode(text, tag, value)
+{
+   elcode1(text, tag, value, '');
+}
+
+function elcode1(text, tag, value, selection)
+{
+   if (selection == '')
+      selection = getSelection(text);
+
+   if (tag == '')
+      str = selection + value;
+   else if (tag == 'LIST')
+      str = '[LIST]\r\n[*] ' + selection + '\r\n[/LIST]';
+   else if (value == '')
+      str = '['+tag+']' + selection + '[/'+tag+']';
+   else
+      str = '['+tag+'='+value+']' + selection + '[/'+tag+']';
+
+   if	(tag == '')
+      pos = value.length;
+   else if (tag == 'LIST')
+      pos = 11;
+   else if (value == '')
+      pos = tag.length + 2;
+   else
+      pos = tag.length + value.length + 3;
+   replaceSelection(text, str, pos);
+   text.focus();
+}
+
+function elcode2(text, tag, value)
+{
+   str = '['+tag+']' + value + '[/'+tag+']';
+
+   pos = str.length;
+   replaceSelection(text, str, pos);
+   text.focus();
+}
+
+function queryURL(text)
+{
+   selection =	getSelection(text);
+   linkText = prompt(linkText_prompt, selection);
+   linkURL = prompt(linkURL_prompt, 'http://');
+   elcode1(text, 'URL',	linkURL, linkText);
+}