How do you make a selection in CKEditor?

Hi,

I'm trying to select all of the editor's contents when it get's the focus. For starters I tried to select an Element (which I can be sure of is the only element in the editor, so selecting it would do the job as well) on focus, but I can't seem to get it right. I tried

rbCKEditor.on('focus', function() {

  if(element = this.document.getById( 'edit_note' )) {
    console.log(element) // The element exists, this log is being called
    this.dom.selection.selectElement(element);
  }

});

...and various other variants of selectElement() but none seems to work, the method's not even found. So if this is the right method, how do I call it? Or is there a method that selects all contents?

Thanks,
Lukas

Tue, 02/15/2011 - 09:55

luke23ae

Joined: 27/11/2009

Posts: 66

Re: How do you make a selection in CKEditor?

Ok, it works like this:

this.rbCKEditor.on('focus', function() {
  var editor = this;

  setTimeout( function() {
    var sel = editor.getSelection(),
        element = sel.getStartElement();

    sel.selectElement(element);
  }, 0.5 );
});

getStartElement is always the body element when focus is fired