Hi James, I've used the jQuery wrapSelection http://plugins.jquery.com/project/wrapSelection plugin before. It is fairly easy to work with as standard JS Range objects can be pretty painful with varying levels of cross browser support. You might find http://github.com/mtcmorris/inline-comment-test useful as a starting example.
Good luck! Mike On Aug 16, 9:14 pm, Nathan Sampimon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > You could use the javascript method window.getSelection to tell when a user > has selected some text, grab the location of the mouse onMouseup and drop > open a menu. The getSelection function will return an object that you can > use to get the text selected. > I haven't used anything like this, but i'd imagine there would be a jQuery or > Prototype plugin out there which might help you out. Or you could write it > yourself. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > On 15/08/2010, at 8:32 AM, jamesl wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > Im looking for a Rails plug-in or an example somewhere that allows me > > to mark a section of > > text on my web page and then pop-up a menu to action that text, like > > 'highlight' or 'reverse' etc. > > > Any suggestions? > > > Rgs, James. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
