For: "what is enclosed in divs of the class "selectable" http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/html $('div.selectable').html()
or http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/text $('div.selectable').text() you may need to loop through them () if there are more than one http://docs.jquery.com/Core/each#callback Getting started? Seriously, the docs are a great great place to start :-) On Dec 2, 6:04 am, stephane_r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if my question is not worded properly, I'm new to jQuery and still do > not understand its syntax. I've read a lot of examples and it did not help > me much. > > I've got this really simple JS function: > > function getActiveText(e) { > var text = window.getSelection(); > alert(text); > > } > > That returns the raw selection in an xhtml page. > > Now I want to limit what it returns to only what is enclosed in divs of the > class "selectable". > > jQuery has the $('div.selectable') selector which selects all <div> elements > with a class name of "selectable". > > What I'm missing is the glue code between my function and jQuery's selector. > > From there, I should be able to go further with jQuery. Now I'm just getting > confused. > > Cheers, > Stéphane > -- > View this message in > context:http://www.nabble.com/First-steps-in-jQuery%3A-trying-to-figure-the-s... > Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
