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HTML

<div id="editable" contenteditable="true">Some editable text. Type in here and any 'a' will be you type will show up as a 'b'</div>

JavaScript

function transformTypedCharacter(typedChar) {
    return typedChar == "a" ? "b" : typedChar;
}

function insertTextAtCursor(text) {
    var sel, range, textNode;
    if (window.getSelection) {
        sel = window.getSelection();
        if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
            range = sel.getRangeAt(0).cloneRange();
            range.deleteContents();
            textNode = document.createTextNode(text);
            range.insertNode(textNode);

            // Move caret to the end of the newly inserted text node
            range.setStart(textNode, textNode.length);
            range.setEnd(textNode, textNode.length);
            sel.removeAllRanges();
            sel.addRange(range);
        }
    } else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
        range = document.selection.createRange();
        range.pasteHTML(text);
    }
}


$("#editable").keypress(function(evt) {
    if (evt.which) {
        var charStr = String.fromCharCode(evt.which);
        var transformedChar = transformTypedCharacter(charStr);
        if (transformedChar != charStr) {
            insertTextAtCursor(transformedChar);
            return false;
        }
    }
});