function confirmLink(theLink, theStatement)
  {
      var is_confirmed = confirm(theStatement);
      if (is_confirmed) {
          theLink.href;
      }
      return is_confirmed;
  }

  function detect(layer)
  { if (document.all) {layer = document.all(layer)}
  else if(document.getElementById){ layer = document.getElementById(layer) }
  else if(document.layers) {layer = document.layers[layer]}
  return layer;}
  function wpisz(text,layer)
  {object=detect(layer); object.innerHTML=text; }
  function textRange(area,ogr){
   var ile = area.value.length;
  	if(ile > ogr)
  	 { wpisz('0','countTest');
  			 area.value =	area.value.substring(0,ogr);	}
  	else { ile=ogr-ile; 	wpisz('<b> '+ile+'</b>','countTest'); }
  }

  function emoticon(text) {
    text = ' ' + text + ' ';
    if (document.news.txt.createTextRange && document.news.txt.caretPos) {
     var caretPos = document.news.txt.caretPos;
     caretPos.text = caretPos.text.charAt(caretPos.text.length - 1) == ' ' ? text + ' ' : text;
     document.news.txt.focus();
    } else {
      document.news.txt.value  += text;
  	document.news.txt.focus();
    }
  }