Text In Text Box Has Been Selected Forwards Or Backwards?
Aug 16, 2010
Is there a way to tell if the text in a text box has been selected forwards or backwards?If you select some text from left to right and then hold down shift and use the cursor keys the right end of the selection moves. If you select some text from right to left and then hold down shift and use the cursor keys the left end of the selection moves.Is there a way in Javascript to detect which way the text has been selected? I need to know if the "end" position is before the "start" position or after. Using ranges and selection objects seems to "normalise" the selection so that the start is before the end.
I want to get the cursor start and end position of a selected range in a text-field or text-area. i tried lot of functions in various forums. but when the last character of the selection is a new line character JavaScript ignore it in IE6. any one having idea ?
I'm trying to 'wrap tags' around text in a text box.
<script language=javascript> function insertFauxTags(fauxTag, e, endFauxTag) { var e = document.frmAddNewForum.txtTopicMessage.selected; document.frmAddNewForum.txtTopicMessage.Value += fauxTag + e + endFauxTag; } </script>
<a href="javascript:insertFauxTags('[p]' + e + '[/p]')"><img src="http://www.<%=strSiteName%>/images/parabutton.gif" border="0" alt="Paragraph" /></a> When I run this in FF I get 'e' is not defined - any ideas?
like for example i have text areas named upload1 and upload2when I click or add input on upload1 a drop down list below upload2 will not change, but when I add input on upload2 the dropdown will select "parts"
I have a select box with a few options. When the page loads I need to get the selected option in this select box and alert its inner text. Yet everything I try out on the net that should work wont work in IE, all other browser its fine. show me the TRUE and correct way to get the inner text of a option from a select box in IE?
et me know how can I highlight a selected portion of an html document with javascript such that the selected portion is repeatedly shown highlighted on each and every page refresh.
function copyit() { if (bBool) { tempstore=copiedtext document.execCommand("Copy") copiedtext=window.clipboardData.getData("Text"); bBool=false; } } How to unselect the text after the text was copied?
I found this code on some web site which actually works on my current Safari browser. I will be grateful if anyone out there with IE version 8 or less can verify it working as well.
Basically I wanted to highlight some text with mouse drag, and have that piece of text wrapped with [high] at the beginning and [/high] at the end.
I have a textarea and some buttons. The buttons apply functions to the text the user selects, i.e. the good old "wrap with a tag" thing we all have seen in 100 different editors.
Trouble is, when I click the button, the selected text gets unselected. Select some text in the textbox and click -anywhere- and the text unselects.
I have a textfield and you of course you can select text...
When they hit the bold button I want it to obtain the selected text and bold it, the hard part is trying to figure out if javascript can even OBTAIN selected text?!?!
I can do this in java if I have to, I know java better than javascript, it seems as that is the only way to do it from looking online.
Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.
I am wondering if it is at all possible to create a button that--when clicked--grabs a paragraph of text that a user has highlighted. So you go to this website, then highlight a section of text. Once you have the text selected with you mouse, you then click the button. The button executes a function which acquires the selected text in a string. Is this hypothetical situation possible? Thank you for the time it took to read this post.
I have an html drop down list. the list has an 'other' option. when the other option is selected I want a text box to pop up to the left of it for entry. I was thinking about using a hidden <div> to contain the text box. and when other is selected to unhide it. How do I unhide it when other is selected?
I'm trying to make a template generator. I want the visitor to select a background (options: none, color, image). If 'color' or 'image' are selected, I need the appropriate text input field to be displayed.
I've found code to do this which I was able to understand and install. I've also found code that was well beyond my current understanding and that I couldn't get to work to save my life.
The problem is that the code snipped I found and installed is designed to work with a single dropdown, and it's beyond me to figure out how to turn it into a function that could be applied on the page multiple times. I have no idea if it is possible with this piece of script, but that is what I need to have whatever script I use do on the page.
This is the snippet I installed:
Code:
function Choose(op) { document.getElementById('None').style.display='none'; document.getElementById('Color').style.display='none'; document.getElementById('Image').style.display='none';
I searched about this problem over Internet and found the same result many times, I found this example on stackoverflow [URL] but this example didn't work in my project; I am making a toolbar with buttons that insert HTML tags around the selected text in a <textarea>, this exemple didn't work because when the user click on a button the selected text won't be selected anymore because <textarea> loses focus and selected text will be unselected, I am targeting Firefox and compatible browsers so you don't need to give me the IE code; jQuery codes are accepted;
What i want is: I have a textarea. When user selects some text and presses a button "[smth]" is added to the begin and end of selected text. How can i do this? It must work on all browsers. The same thing makes daniweb when you format a text (post).
I've got a form with a textarea box, currently you can just type a message in the box and submit it, then it is added to a mysql database and shows up on a page I made for people to view staff memos.
I've been asked to add formatting options like bold, italic, underline etc. Unfortunately me and javascript have never really met so I'm quite stumped. I can handle the form processing with PHP converting [b] to <strong> etc myself but I need help with the actual user interface.
