get selected text in IE6

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get the selected text in my editor in IE6 using the following code:

FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance("body").EditorDocument.selection.createRange().text

But it's not doing the trick!

I was wondering if there was a different way of doing so?

Wed, 07/29/2009 - 17:07

lesbarstow

Joined: 07/07/2008

Posts: 185

Re: get selected text in IE6

I think you can just do

var range = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance("body").Selection();

Thu, 07/30/2009 - 03:54

itstudent

Joined: 23/06/2009

Posts: 10

Re: get selected text in IE6

Hi LesBarstow,

Your code should be the following in order for it to work:

var range = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance("body").Selection.getSelection()

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 07:32

itstudent

Joined: 23/06/2009

Posts: 10

Sorry guys, the problem turned out to be something other than what I thought it was.

IE6 apparently looses the selection the moment FCKeditor looses the focus. that's why when I was trying to get the selected text it was returning nothing!

My issue now is keeping the selection available to be fetched even if I click somewhere outside the editor... this only happens in IE6 (FF works just fine)..

Fri, 07/31/2009 - 08:06

kapilgupta

Joined: 12/11/2007

Posts: 5

Re: get selected text in IE6

I was facing similar issue in IE and came up with following workaround.
Attach a listener with OnSelectionChange event after FCKEditor is loaded

oFCKeditor.Events.AttachEvent( 'OnSelectionChange', setEditorSelection);
function setEditorSelection(oFCKeditor){   
   if (document.all){
      oRange = oFCKeditor.EditorDocument.selection.createRange();
   }
}

This way you get the selected range even when the focus is not in editor window.
Hope it works for you as well (This code was working fine in 2.6, not sure abt V3)

Regards
Kapil