inserting into a textarea

hi folks.

what I am trying to do is set up a little editor for some very simple html for my builder.

this is real simple stuff I want the user to type in the text and then assign a style to it off a drop down.

I have the file reading in and writing out

It loads it into a textarea and then it can be edited.

WHat I need to do is have the user put these styles in the text box.

I tried to use a key stroke which worked quite well, I know how to use the selection and that worked quite well BUT the keystroke was still coming up I tried to use ` to do it and I can't NOT make it show the `

I tried to return false from the function but no dice.

I just want to use start tags like

<heading> blah blah blah
<normal>yada yada yada

I will look into clicking to insert, but I really wanted a key stroke (I wish I could use the insert key but it does not register inside the text area.

Any ideas on how I can avoid it poutting the keystroke up there too?

Thanks in advanced.

I got it, seems if I capture the event in s alightly different manner I can do all I need it to!!

thanks anyway