How to get the selected text?

How can I get the text which is currently selected in the Editor Window?

I was using this version: FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection(), but this only works in Firefox. What is the way to get the selected text for Internet Explorer or is there a crossbrowser way to do this?

Tue, 08/23/2005 - 22:13

jenzener

Joined: 23/08/2005

Posts: 38

RE: How to get the selected text?

You can use the built-in function FCK.Selection and you will get the selected object

Wed, 08/24/2005 - 08:10

woudloper

Joined: 23/08/2005

Posts: 9

RE: How to get the selected text?

How do you mean use the built-in function to get the selection. Due to the somehow reason I can't get the selection (thus the FCK.Selection object) return the selected text.

To made this possible I have created the following code:

--- [ CODE ] ---------------------------
var sSelected;
if ( oEditor.FCKBrowserInfo.IsGecko ) {
sSelected = FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection();
} else {
sSelected = FCK.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text;
}
--- [ CODE ] ---------------------------

Can someone tell me if this is the correct way for doing this!? As for the Gecko part I use 'EditorWindow' and for the IE part is use the 'EditorDocument' object.

Sat, 08/27/2005 - 15:50

kwillems

Joined: 03/02/2006

Posts: 76

RE: How to get the selected text?

http://www.quirksmode.org/js/selected.html

Sun, 08/28/2005 - 23:51

woudloper

Joined: 23/08/2005

Posts: 9

RE: How to get the selected text?

Thanks for this reply. I have looked at the document of PPK and saw that the code mentioned in the other post is the correct one as according to the matrix on the page for IE (on WIN) you should work with:

-- [ CODE ] ------
var txt = document.selection.createRange().text;
-- [ CODE ] ------

and for Gecko you can work with the following code:

-- [ CODE ] ------
var txt = window.getSelection();
-- [ CODE ] ------

The only thing is that I can't test this function with IE on MAC, but I assume most people use Safari.

Thu, 01/19/2006 - 11:40

apinstein

Joined: 19/01/2006

Posts: 1

RE: How to get the selected text?

I have just dealt with this problem myself. Thanks to this thread and some further work, I have created a simple function.

I could not get FCK.Selection to work, but this does. Please feel free to incorporate this back into FCK as part of the base API, as I think it's very useful for plugin devs.

// Useful generic function for determining if something is selected in the editor. Tested IE and FF.
function editorHasSelection()
{
var FCK = window.parent.InnerDialogLoaded().FCK ;
var bHasSelection = false;
try {
var oSel = null;
if(document.all) {
oSel = FCK.EditorDocument.selection ; // ie
bHasSelection = !(oSel.type == "None");
} else {
oSel = FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection() ; // gecko
bHasSelection = (oSel && oSel.rangeCount == 1 && oSel.getRangeAt(0).cloneContents().childNodes.length > 0);
}
} catch (e) {}
return bHasSelection;
}

Mon, 10/30/2006 - 01:39

saul11

Joined: 19/06/2006

Posts: 633

RE: How to get the selected text?

https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php ... _id=257180

Thu, 02/22/2007 - 00:28

mqasim

Joined: 22/02/2007

Posts: 4

RE: How to get the selected text?

Alan i have placed this hook in FCKeditorAPI.js but still the code is not working it gives me error on selection command
Could you pls tell me what could be the reason