Or using double-click instead of single click. Then the standard text
selection handling applies (not trivial cross-browser, but at least
doable).
Cheers,
/Per
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jason Bunting
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am not thinking hard about this, so if I am way off, someone will correct
> me. :P
>
> Seems to me you would have to place just about every word (or, at least,
> those you care about) in a span tag and connect to the onmouseover event or
> onclick event of that span and then your handler could use scrapeText() to
> get the value out.
>
> connect(oneOfTheSpans, "onclick", function(eventArgs) {
> var textClickedOn = scrapeText(eventArgs.src());
> });
>
> I don't know, there is probably some much better way of doing this, but I
> thought I would at least respond.
>
> Jason Bunting
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
>> Behalf Of Nilu
>> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:11 PM
>> To: MochiKit
>> Subject: [mochikit] Get text under the mouse pointer via javascript
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if it is at possible to get the word a user clicks on
>> with javascript. For example if I click on "word" (note that it isn't
>> inside a span, div or anchor element), the script would display
>> "word".
>>
>> Another way of doing this would be to get the coordinates of the mouse
>> and find the word which is at that point or the closest word to it.
>>
>> Is it possible at all? Please help
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Nilu
>>
>> >
>>
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