Re: Getting Selected Text
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Re: Getting Selected Text

From: Alex <a.r.austin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat Mar 18 2006 - 01:07:21 CET

Pass into the function the DV's Id.

function selectext(element_id) {
                                var d=document;
                                if(d.getElementById ) {
                            var elem = d.getElementById(element_id);
                            if(elem) {
                                        if(d.createRange) {
                                        var rng = d.createRange();
                                if(rng.selectNodeContents) {
                                  rng.selectNodeContents(elem);
                                  if(window.getSelection) {
                                    var sel=window.getSelection();
                                    if(sel.removeAllRanges) sel.removeAllRanges();
                                    if(sel.addRange) sel.addRange(rng);
                                  }
                                }
                              } else if(d.body && d.body.createTextRange) {
                                var rng = d.body.createTextRange();
                                rng.moveToElementText(elem);
                                rng.select();
                              }
                            }
                          }
                        }
Received on Mon May 1 04:09:32 2006