Saving/restoring Insertion point in IE

I am working with FCKeditor and experience an Internet Explorer specific bug with the insertion point. I need a way to save/restore the insertion point (and current selection) in IE6, or to disable the movement of it temporarily.

The reason is that clicks in a modal dialog box above end up clicking through and moving the insertion point in the rich text editor. Then when you hit Ok on the dialog, the action gets done in the wrong place.

Thanks.

Sat, 03/31/2007 - 17:13

nathany

Joined: 31/03/2007

Posts: 3

RE: Saving/restoring Insertion point in IE

Using some of the posts on this forum, I came up with code to save/restore selections, which handles a lot of cases. But I still have a problem when the insertion point is just sitting there... I'm not sure how to save/restore it when nothing is selected.

Code for what I have so far (added to fckselection_ie.js):

// custom functions to save selection to handle IE-click through issue in modal dialoges -nj
FCKSelection.Save = function()
{
if ( this.GetType() == 'Control' )
{
this.saved = 'node';
this.oSavedNode = FCKSelection.GetSelectedElement();
}
else if( this.GetType() == 'Text' )
{
this.saved = 'range';
this.oSavedRange = FCK.EditorDocument.selection.createRange();
}
}

FCKSelection.Restore = function()
{
if( this.saved && this.saved == 'node' )
{
FCKSelection.SelectNode(this.oSavedNode);
}
else if( this.saved && this.saved == 'range' )
{
this.oSavedRange.select();
}
}