In firefox, I have had success with "selectionStart" and "selectionEnd"
if you have a form:
<form name="a">
<textarea name="b"></textarea>
you can access the start and end points of the highlighted text (or
get the position of the cursor in the text) with:
startPoint = document.a.b.selectionStart;
endPoint = document.a.b.selectionEnd;
This won't work in IE (where I tend to use document.selection) so you
have to do some kind of functionality test like:
if(document.selection){
//do IE stuff
}else if(myField.selectionStart)
//do mozilla stuff
....
Hope this helps
--
Patrick
www.agavegroup.com
On 8/9/05, Buddy Quaid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to this group and this is my first message.
>
> I am porting over a rich text editor that currently only works in IE.
>
> I have done tons of search about getting the selected text in a page.
> I'm very close...for instance...you can now see the formatting buttons
> and also I have the correct code to get it to know what is selected and
> if you click 'bold' it will put the bold tags around it in a text box.
>
> I want it so that if NOTHING is selected and you hit bold it will give
> you an alert box for the text that you would like bolded. Then plance
> that text with the bold tags around it. My problem is I can't get the
> right code of the DOM to test correctly for a selection being made in
> the text box.
>
> I am currently trying
>
> Str = window.getSelection;
> If (str.isCollapsed) {
> if true do this;
> }else{
> do this;
> }
>
> I put alert(str.isCollapsed) in there to trace what is going on but it's
> ALWAYS true.
>
> I'm wondering if it's because the text is in a textarea and not just on
> the page?
>
> Like I said, I have been getting it to work without sniffing to see if a
> selection has actually been made to put the tags around the text but I
> can't for the life of me sniff it out through code.
>
> I've also tried
>
> Str = window.getSelection;
> If(str.toString().length > 0) to no avail.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Buddy
>
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