Insert text at current cursor position on dropdown list changed inside iframe

Question

I am using a text editor provided by Microsoft ajax-toolkit.
It renders iframe on browser. I have added a dropdown in that editor and I want that when user changes the drop-down index the value should be added in the editor current cursor position.

I got a code on SO which gives me the current selected text inside editor is as follows

function getIframeSelectionText(iframe) {
        var win = iframe.contentWindow;
        var doc = iframe.contentDocument || win.document;

        if (win.getSelection) {
            return win.getSelection().toString();

        } else if (doc.selection && doc.selection.createRange) {
            return doc.selection.createRange().text;
        }
 }

But I want to add some text at the current position. The html is rendering as below

<td class="ajax__htmleditor_editor_editpanel"><div id="Editor1_ctl02" style="height:100%;width:100%;">
            <iframe id="Editor1_ctl02_ctl00" name="Editor1_ctl02_ctl00" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="height:100%;width:100%;display:none;border-width:0px;">

            </iframe><textarea id="Editor1_ctl02_ctl01" class="ajax__htmleditor_htmlpanel_default" style="height:100%;width:100%;display:none;"></textarea><iframe id="Editor1_ctl02_ctl02" name="Editor1_ctl02_ctl02" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" style="height:100%;width:100%;display:none;border-width:0px;">

            </iframe>
        </div></td>

I am trying as follow

$("#imgDropdown").change(function () {
            //var iframeBody =    $(window.Editor1_ctl02_ctl00.document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0]);
            var iframe = document.getElementById("Editor1_ctl02_ctl00");
            $("#Editor1_ctl02_ctl00").find("body").insertAtCaret("value");
            //alert(getIframeSelectionText(iframe));
        });

the function for inserting text is not working with iframe is as follow

$.fn.extend({
        insertAtCaret: function (myValue) {
            if (document.selection) {
                this.focus();
                sel = document.selection.createRange();
                sel.text = myValue;
                this.focus();
            }
            else if (this.selectionStart || this.selectionStart == '0') {
                var startPos = this.selectionStart;
                var endPos = this.selectionEnd;
                var scrollTop = this.scrollTop;
                this.value = this.value.substring(0, startPos) + myValue + this.value.substring(endPos, this.value.length);
                this.focus();
                this.selectionStart = startPos + myValue.length;
                this.selectionEnd = startPos + myValue.length;
                this.scrollTop = scrollTop;
            } else {
                this.value += myValue;
                this.focus();
            }
        }
    })

Answer 1

Easy, you just have to use.

$("#Editor1_ctl02_ctl00").contents().find('textarea').insertAtCaret('value');

Updated

Sorry, I thought the insertAtCaret function is working for you, you just needed to work inside iFrame. You can use this version of insertAtCaret:

jQuery.fn.extend({
    insertAtCaret: function (html) {
        var winObject = function (el){
            var doc = el.ownerDocument;
            return doc.defaultView || doc.parentWindow
        };
        return this.each(function (i) {
                var sel, range, w = this;
                w = winObject(w);
                if (w.getSelection) {
                    // IE9 and non-IE
                    sel = w.getSelection();
                    if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
                        range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
                        range.deleteContents();

                        // Range.createContextualFragment() would be useful here but is
                        // only relatively recently standardized and is not supported in
                        // some browsers (IE9, for one)
                        var el = w.document.createElement("div");
                        el.innerHTML = html;
                        var frag = w.document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
                        while ((node = el.firstChild)) {
                            lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
                        }
                        range.insertNode(frag);

                        // Preserve the selection
                        if (lastNode) {
                            range = range.cloneRange();
                            range.setStartAfter(lastNode);
                            range.collapse(true);
                            sel.removeAllRanges();
                            sel.addRange(range);
                        }
                    }
                } else if (w.document.selection && w.document.selection.type != "Control") {
                    // IE < 9
                    w.document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(html);
                }
            }
        )
    }
});

and call it like:

$("#Editor1_ctl02_ctl00").contents().find('body').insertAtCaret($val);

Function adapted from here

Happy coding!