The code above had a bug which I somehow didn't notice since now. It forgot to insert the paragraph tag to put the toolbar in a separate page, so sometimes (in wide pages) the toolbar shows to the left of the textarea, which is ugly. The fix would be trivial: change 

t.parentNode.insertBefore(l,t);

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to 
t.parentNode.insertBefore(p,t);

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However, this is a bit ugly, because the paragraph tag adds some vertical space between the toolbar and the image, so I'll soon fix the code to add a br tag instead of a p tag.

The original node will contain the fixed code (it does now), so here's a backup copy of the old code. 

<script type="text/javascript" defer><!--
function edittoolbar_help(){window.alert('Separate paragraphs with "<p
+>", put "<c>".."<\x2fc>" around code or data (linebreaks inside it ar
+e taken literally) and you\x27ll be okay.  Don\x27t forget to check i
+f the preview looks right.');}
(function(){
var d=document,c="createElement",i="appendChild";
var t=d.getElementsByTagName("textarea")[0];
if(t){
var p=d[c]("p"),l=d[c]("a"),m=d[c]("img");
m.src="http://www.math.bme.hu/~ambrus/pu/edittoolbar";
m.border=0;
l.href="javascript:edittoolbar_help()";
l[i](m);p[i](l);
t.parentNode.insertBefore(l,t);
}
})();
//--></script>

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in thread Javascript formatting toolbar for perlmonks by ambrus

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