[New plugin] how to get HTML selected text ?

FCK.EditorDocument.getSelection() 

I'm a begginer, i don't know if it's the answer, it works for me ...

I got the text but not the html text ! There is no tag. Do you have an idea to get html text ?

Any idea ?

I just filed a ticket #2071 about this issue.
I noticed that

FCK.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text

is not working anymore in FCKeditor 2.6RC (and also in the 2.6 beta).
In IE you have to use this function to retreive the selected text.

In the current stable release 2.5.1 the function is working like a sharm!

Firefox users can use:

FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection()

and that is still working in 2.6RC!

I hope it will be fixed in the upcoming release of this great editor!

It is confirmed that it is a bug in IE7.

According to the comment on ticket #2071:

FCK.EditorDocument.selection wouldn't return a selection object inside the editing document, but rather the selection object inside the floating dialog iframe. This is an IE bug in which it is limited to having only one selection per browser window, and that it can return a selection object from another iframe document even though you asked for document.selection.
We've included an updated API in FCKeditor 2.6 to workaround this problem. Try to use FCKSelection.GetSelection() in place of FCK.EditorDocument.selection - it should always give you the selection object inside the editing iframe.

So the code to

selectedtxt = oEditor.FCKSelection.GetSelection().createRange().text;

will work now!

I got the following to work in ff,ie and safari(pc)

var selection = "";
if(oEditor.EditorDocument.selection != null) {
   selection = oEditor.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text;
}
else {
   selection = oEditor.EditorWindow.getSelection();
}

For what it's worth, inside a plugin I had to modify waobii's code slightly:

    var selection = "";
    if(oEditor.FCK.EditorDocument.selection != null) {
      selection = oEditor.FCK.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text;
    }
    else {
      selection = oEditor.FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection();
    }

But it works great now. Excellent!

One more tweak:

    var selection = "";
    if(oEditor.FCK.EditorDocument.selection != null) {
      selection = oEditor.FCK.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text;
    } else {
      selection = oEditor.FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection(); // after this, won't be a string
      selection = "" + selection; // now a string again
    }

Please forgive me if I am missing the point of this discussion thread. I am relatively new to FCKeditor.

There is some sample code for creating a non-dialog plugin over a Source Forge. It works - but only in IE. The problem in Safari and FireFox is the line containing the .createRange() method. The JS console says the method doesn't exist. This is the code. Is there an easy way to generalize this so it works in Safari and FireFox as well?

var FCKEmphasis = function(name)  
{  
this.Name = name;  
}  
 
FCKEmphasis.prototype.Execute = function()  
{  
if(document.all)  
{  
mySelection = FCK.EditorDocument.selection 
}  
else  
{  
mySelection = FCK.EditorWindow.getSelection() 
}  
myTextRange= mySelection.createRange() 
myText = myTextRange.text  
FCK.InsertHtml("<b>"+myText+"!</b>") 
myTextRange.select() 
}  

Thanks!

doug

Doug,

I haven't dug into this much, but you'll see from my previous post that createRange() is in an if statement. I'm pretty sure you need to do the same. That part of the code is called in IE, but you need an else for Firefox/Safari that contains other code.

Good luck.

kevinashworth wrote:Doug,

I haven't dug into this much, but you'll see from my previous post that createRange() is in an if statement. I'm pretty sure you need to do the same. That part of the code is called in IE, but you need an else for Firefox/Safari that contains other code.

Good luck.

It turns out if you just make sure that the "range" related statements just get used in IE and make sure they aren't executed in Firefox/Safari (no substitutions with other methods) it seems to work just fine.

doug

waobii wrote:I got the following to work in ff,ie and safari(pc)

var selection = "";
if(oEditor.EditorDocument.selection != null) {
   selection = oEditor.EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text;
}
else {
   selection = oEditor.EditorWindow.getSelection();
}

Thanks a lot, but this doesn't work in IE7 either. I always get an empty string in IE7.

FCKEditor 2.6.4

I had the same problem wich was making me crazy, I just come to make it work on IE 7.
Try this to get the content of the selection on IE 7:

var selection = oEditor.FCK.Selection.GetSelection().createRange().text;