How to replace selected textarea value using javascript

// code for IE
var textarea = document.getElementById("textarea");
 
if (document.selection)
   {
    textarea.focus();
    var sel = document.selection.createRange();
    // alert the selected text in textarea
    alert(sel.text);
 
    // Finally replace the value of the selected text
   // with this new replacement one
    sel.text = '' + sel.text + '';
   }
 
 
 
 
// code for Mozilla
 
  var textarea = document.getElementById("textarea");
 
  var len = textarea.value.length;
   var start = textarea.selectionStart;
   var end = textarea.selectionEnd;
   var sel = textarea.value.substring(start, end);
 
   // This is the selected text and alert it
   alert(sel);
 
  var replace = '' + sel + '';
 
  // Here we are replacing the selected text with this one

 textarea.value =  textarea.value.substring(0,start) + replace + textarea.value.substring(end,len);