getSelection() is not working in IE?

hai all,

i am using getSelection() method to select the perticular area in FCK Editor.It is working properly in Mozilla.But it is not working properly in IE.

What i am doing is when i select a perticular area in FCK Editor then an alert should be displayed "you can't edit this area" like that.This working fine in mozilla,but....in IE alert is not coming... :roll:

Tue, 06/17/2008 - 12:08

martinkou

Joined: 02/08/2007

Posts: 47

Re: getSelection() is not working in IE?

There's no getSelection() in IE... IE uses a non-standard method of representing selection data.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535869(VS.85).aspx

Tue, 11/10/2009 - 19:03

mikeyred

Joined: 10/11/2009

Posts: 2

Re: getSelection() is not working in IE?

Hi,

I think I found a solution. It doesn't make sense to me, but it works. :mrgreen:

          
var current_editor = "your_editor_name";

if(CKEDITOR.env.ie)
{
  CKEDITOR.instances[current_editor].getSelection().unlock(true);
  var selected_text = CKEDITOR.instances[current_editor].getSelection().getNative().createRange().text;
}
else
{
  var selected_text = CKEDITOR.instances[current_editor].getSelection().getNative();
}

// So no you can use it to replace something for instance, like I want to do in a custon plugin i've made.
CKEDITOR.instances[current_editor].insertHtml('[foo]' + selected_text + '[bar]');

I hope it will also help you out! I've been searching for hours. Also reading this topic, so I thought maybe it's nice to write down my solution.