Alternatives to innerHTML for use with a Quote link on a forum

If its to go into that textarea, why not just use value?

<script type="text/javascript">
function insertText(val,e){
document.getElementById(e).value+=val;
}
</script>
 
<textarea id="post"></textarea><br />
 
<a href="javascript:insertText('$quote3[post] ','post');" onClick="void(0)">Quote</a>

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Better, but still don't work with a $quote3[post] like: "Hello, I'm ..." Because of the , and ' .

Try escaping your PHP:

<a href="javascript:insertText(\'' . $quote3[post] . '\','post');" onClick="void(0)">Quote</a>

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No sorry, that didn't made the difference.

Removing the , and ' is not a option, because the weird post you would get.

The above may not work, as I'm not a PHP programmer, as was pure guess work. Also, I'm not suggesting you remove the characters, I'm saying they need escaping, which would allow you to use value or innerHTML to your hearts content (There is nothing wrong with innerHTML as is faster than other w3c DOM methods).

Some handy links for you would be:
http://www.the-art-of-web.com/javascript/escape/
http://www.the-art-of-web.com/php/javascript-escape/

That would indeed fix the problem with the ' and the ", but it doesn't fix the problem with the ,.

I would like to thank you for all your help, and I hope that someone who know how to fix it, will see my question.

I had problem using it once and resorted to loading page into iframe.

if(check.name.value==""){
self.frames['required'].location.href = 'gb_nr.htm'
return(false);
}

'required' is the name of the iframe.

But I don't use frames...

Lol, why not do you have an allergy? There's a stereotype against frames because of search engine issue but they can be navigated and in the end they don't have any affect at all on search engines.

This method works, the page I load into tiny iframe is 1kb and never an issue with browsers. I use these methods http://www.searchengineguide.com/dale-goetsch/optimizing-frames-for-search-engines.php and put noindex noarchive if I don't want them in search engines.

I'm not looking for a frame system. But for a way to get my quote link working....

As i said above, you simply need to escape the unsafe JS characters in your PHP output, then use the script below. You certainly don't need to start using frames.

<script type="text/javascript">
function insertText(val,e){
document.getElementById(e).value+=val;
}
</script>
 
<textarea id="post"></textarea><br />
 
<a href="javascript:insertText('$quote3[post]','post');" onClick="void(0)">Quote</a>

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As i said above as well, my background is not from PHP, it's coldfusion. In CF we have a function called JSStringFormat which makes a string safe i.e. it basically replaces all unsafe chars with \ in front of them to escape them.

This is the sort of function you need in PHP. While looking around I have found:

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/5342

This may help