I am trying to insert token after selecting from context menu at the caret position inside a contenteditable div. I have managed to do that if the caret position is in a single line.
In my case the range offset value will set to 0 whenever other HTML tags appear i.e when the line changes. I am using these two functions for getting the range which I've found somewhere in stackoverflow.
Any help is appreciated!
function saveSelection() {
var range = null;
if (window.getSelection) {
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
return sel.getRangeAt(0);
}
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
return document.selection.createRange();
}
return null;
}
I think the problem is not with the no of line of content in your element which is contenteditable. Because you are using context menu with contenteditable div as you have mentioned. And when ever you click on the context menu it will get range value of that context menu.
So you should store the range value on certain variable before clicking on certain menu.
Since your code is incomplete I cannot relate any example with your code.
Here is one example hope this will help you:
function pasteHtmlAtCaret(html) {
var sel, range;
if (window.getSelection) {
// IE9 and non-IE
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.deleteContents();
// Range.createContextualFragment() would be useful here but is
// non-standard and not supported in all browsers (IE9, for one)
var el = document.createElement("div");
el.innerHTML = html;
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
while ( (node = el.firstChild) ) {
lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
}
range.insertNode(frag);
// Preserve the selection
if (lastNode) {
range = range.cloneRange();
range.setStartAfter(lastNode);
range.collapse(true);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
}
}
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") {
// IE < 9
document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(html);
}
}
<input type="button" value="Paste HTML" onclick="document.getElementById('test').focus(); pasteHtmlAtCaret('<b>INSERTED</b>'); ">
<div id="test" contenteditable="true">
Here is some nice text
</div>
jsfiddle link for the above mentioned code.
I have the following function that creates a new text node at the end of a document when called, using the value of text within a text field:
function addAfter () {
var elem = document.getElementById('textfield').value;
var h = document.createElement('span');
var t = document.createTextNode(elem);
h.appendChild(t);
document.body.appendChild(h);
}
What I would like it to do would be to add the text immediately after user-selected text (like when you click and drag to select text). What needs to replace the document.body.appendChild(h); for this to work?
Try This JS Fiddle
This should do it on anything but IE edge(I believe)
function getSelectionText() {
var text = "";
if (window.getSelection) {
text = window.getSelection().toString();
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") {
text = document.selection.createRange().text;
}
return text;
}
document.body.addEventListener('mouseup', function() {
(window.getSelection()) ? addText(window.getSelection().toString(), window.getSelection().baseNode.parentNode) : addText(document.selection.toString(), document.selection.baseNode.parentNode);
});
function addText(text, parent) {
parent.appendChild(document.createTextNode(text));
}
The way that this works is it uses the mouseUp event to determine whether or not text MAY have been selected. Selected text is stored underneath window.getSelected() OR document.selected() - it then passes that value as well as the parent of the selected text to the addText function. It uses the document appendChild and createTextNode methods to append the captured text to the DOM.
In Previous Versions of IE they used document.select(), but in Edge they switched over to getSelection(like everyone else) BUT they didn't implement the same value that's returned when you get text, ergo you can't really grab the parentNode and easily append to that node.
So, in short, this will give you what you're looking for, but it's not cross-browser and there doesn't appear to be a way to do that easily.
I manipulated a solution that I found on another feed.
function addAfter (isBefore) {
var sel, range, node;
var changeText = document.getElementById('textfield').value;
var textAndCode = "<span class=\"correction\"> " + changeText + " </span>";
if (window.getSelection) {
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);
range.collapse(isBefore);
// Range.createContextualFragment() would be useful here but was
// until recently non-standard and not supported in all browsers
// (IE9, for one)
var el = document.createElement("div");
el.innerHTML = textAndCode;
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
while ( (node = el.firstChild) ) {
lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
}
range.insertNode(frag);
}
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
range = document.selection.createRange();
range.collapse(isBefore);
range.pasteHTML(textAndCode);
}
}
You just have to pass in the value for isBefore as false if you want it to appear after.
I'm still learning the ropes when it comes to JavaScript and one of the issues which is causing me the most problems is understanding the caret position. Currently I'm writing a reference form for a wiki (http://t3chbox.wikia.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Wikia.js/referenceForm.js) and have it working for the source code editor for the wiki, but not the WYSIWYG editor (Visual Editor). I was wondering if anyone here knew how to get the caret position and then paste text for the iframe in which the edit content sits?
The WYSIWYG editor can be seen here: http://t3chbox.wikia.com/wiki/Test?action=edit (edit whilst not logged in for those with Wikia accounts and have Visual set to off). The method I've been using the get the content and attempt to paste at the caret is this:
$(document.getElementById('cke_contents_wpTextbox1').getElementsByTagName('iframe')[0].contentDocument.body).insertAtCaret('hello');
Thanks :)
The jquery insertAtCaret function that you are using only works with textareas and input fields. It does not work with contentEditable elements. You can take a look at this jsfiddle for inserting at caret for contentEditable elements.
function pasteHtmlAtCaret(html,windo) {
windo = windo || window;
var sel, range;
if (windo.getSelection) {
// IE9 and non-IE
sel = windo.getSelection();
console.log(sel);
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
console.log(range);
range.deleteContents();
// Range.createContextualFragment() would be useful here but is
// non-standard and not supported in all browsers (IE9, for one)
var el = windo.document.createElement("div");
el.innerHTML = html;
var frag = windo.document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
while ( (node = el.firstChild) ) {
lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
}
range.insertNode(frag);
// Preserve the selection
if (lastNode) {
range = range.cloneRange();
range.setStartAfter(lastNode);
range.collapse(true);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
}
}
} else if (windo.document.selection && windo.document.selection.type != "Control") {
// IE < 9
windo.document.selection.createRange().pasteHTML(html);
}
}
//usage
var iframeWindow = document.getElementById('cke_contents_wpTextbox1').getElementsByTagName('iframe')[0].contentWindow;
pasteHtmlAtCaret("Hello World!",iframeWindow);
http://jsfiddle.net/jwvha/534/
I have a contentEditable div where I want to insert HTML tags (a simple span element).
Is there a cross browser solution that allows me to insert those tags over my div selection or cursor position. If something else is selected on the page (not in the div), I want to append the tag to the end of the div.
Thanks
Here is a kickstart
// get the selection range (or cursor position)
var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);
// create a span
var newElement = document.createElement('span');
newElement.id = 'myId';
newElement.innerHTML = 'Hello World!';
// if the range is in #myDiv ;)
if(range.startContainer.parentNode.id==='myDiv') {
// delete whatever is on the range
range.deleteContents();
// place your span
range.insertNode(newElement);
}
I don't have IE but works fine on firefox, chrome and safari. Maybe you want to play with range.startContainer to proceed only if the selection is made on the contentEditable div.
EDIT: According to quirksmode range intro you have to change the window.getSelection() part to be IE compatible.
var userSelection;
if (window.getSelection) {
userSelection = window.getSelection();
}
else if (document.selection) { // should come last; Opera!
userSelection = document.selection.createRange();
}
The following will do this in all major browsers (including IE 6). It will also handle cases where the end of the selection is outside your <div> and cases where the selection is contained within a child (or more deeply nested) element inside the <div>.
2019 addendum: The second branch of insertNodeOverSelection is for IE <= 8 only and could be removed now.
function isOrContainsNode(ancestor, descendant) {
var node = descendant;
while (node) {
if (node === ancestor) return true;
node = node.parentNode;
}
return false;
}
function insertNodeOverSelection(node, containerNode) {
var sel, range, html;
if (window.getSelection) {
sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
if (isOrContainsNode(containerNode, range.commonAncestorContainer)) {
range.deleteContents();
range.insertNode(node);
} else {
containerNode.appendChild(node);
}
}
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
range = document.selection.createRange();
if (isOrContainsNode(containerNode, range.parentElement())) {
html = (node.nodeType == 3) ? node.data : node.outerHTML;
range.pasteHTML(html);
} else {
containerNode.appendChild(node);
}
}
}
<input type="button" onmousedown="insertNodeOverSelection(document.createTextNode('[NODE]'), document.getElementById('test'));" value="insert">
<div contenteditable="true">
<div id="test" style="background-color: lightgoldenrodyellow">
This is the editable element where the insertion will happen. Select something or place the cursor in here, then hit the button above
</div>
<div>
No insertion will happen here
</div>
</div>
I would like to have users click a link, then it selects the HTML text in another element (not an input).
By "select" I mean the same way you would select text by dragging your mouse over it. This has been a bear to research because everyone talks about "select" or "highlight" in other terms.
Is this possible? My code so far:
HTML:
Select Code
<code id="xhtml-code">Some Code here </code>
JS:
function SelectText(element) {
$("#" + element).select();
}
Am I missing something blatantly obvious?
Plain Javascript
function selectText(nodeId) {
const node = document.getElementById(nodeId);
if (document.body.createTextRange) {
const range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(node);
range.select();
} else if (window.getSelection) {
const selection = window.getSelection();
const range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(node);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
} else {
console.warn("Could not select text in node: Unsupported browser.");
}
}
const clickable = document.querySelector('.click-me');
clickable.addEventListener('click', () => selectText('target'));
<div id="target"><p>Some text goes here!</p><p>Moar text!</p></div>
<p class="click-me">Click me!</p>
Here is a working demo. For those of you looking for a jQuery plugin, I made one of those too.
jQuery (original answer)
I have found a solution for this in this thread. I was able to modify the info given and mix it with a bit of jQuery to create a totally awesome function to select the text in any element, regardless of browser:
function SelectText(element) {
var text = document.getElementById(element);
if ($.browser.msie) {
var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(text);
range.select();
} else if ($.browser.mozilla || $.browser.opera) {
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(text);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
} else if ($.browser.safari) {
var selection = window.getSelection();
selection.setBaseAndExtent(text, 0, text, 1);
}
}
Here's a version with no browser sniffing and no reliance on jQuery:
function selectElementText(el, win) {
win = win || window;
var doc = win.document, sel, range;
if (win.getSelection && doc.createRange) {
sel = win.getSelection();
range = doc.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(el);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
} else if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
range = doc.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(el);
range.select();
}
}
selectElementText(document.getElementById("someElement"));
selectElementText(elementInIframe, iframe.contentWindow);
This thread (dead link) contains really wonderful stuff. But I'm not able to do it right on this page using FF 3.5b99 + FireBug due to "Security Error".
Yipee!! I was able to select whole right hand sidebar with this code hope it helps you:
var r = document.createRange();
var w=document.getElementById("sidebar");
r.selectNodeContents(w);
var sel=window.getSelection();
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(r);
PS:- I was not able to use objects returned by jquery selectors like
var w=$("div.welovestackoverflow",$("div.sidebar"));
//this throws **security exception**
r.selectNodeContents(w);
Jason's code can not be used for elements inside an iframe (as the scope differs from window and document). I fixed that problem and I modified it in order to be used as any other jQuery plugin (chainable):
Example 1: Selection of all text inside < code > tags with single click and add class "selected":
$(function() {
$("code").click(function() {
$(this).selText().addClass("selected");
});
});
Example 2: On button click, select an element inside an Iframe:
$(function() {
$("button").click(function() {
$("iframe").contents().find("#selectme").selText();
});
});
Note: remember that the iframe source should reside in the same domain to prevent security errors.
jQuery Plugin:
jQuery.fn.selText = function() {
var obj = this[0];
if ($.browser.msie) {
var range = obj.offsetParent.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(obj);
range.select();
} else if ($.browser.mozilla || $.browser.opera) {
var selection = obj.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection();
var range = obj.ownerDocument.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(obj);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
} else if ($.browser.safari) {
var selection = obj.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection();
selection.setBaseAndExtent(obj, 0, obj, 1);
}
return this;
}
I tested it in IE8, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome (current versions). I'm not sure if it works in older IE versions (sincerely I don't care).
You can use the following function to select content of any element:
jQuery.fn.selectText = function(){
this.find('input').each(function() {
if($(this).prev().length == 0 || !$(this).prev().hasClass('p_copy')) {
$('<p class="p_copy" style="position: absolute; z-index: -1;"></p>').insertBefore($(this));
}
$(this).prev().html($(this).val());
});
var doc = document;
var element = this[0];
console.log(this, element);
if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(element);
range.select();
} else if (window.getSelection) {
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(element);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
}
};
This function can be called as follows:
$('#selectme').selectText();
I was searching for the same thing, my solution was this:
$('#el-id').focus().select();
I liked lepe's answer except for a few things:
Browser-sniffing, jQuery or no isn't optimal
DRY
Doesn't work in IE8 if obj's parent doesn't support createTextRange
Chrome's ability to use setBaseAndExtent should be leveraged (IMO)
Will not select text spanning across multiple DOM elements (elements within the "selected" element). In other words if you call selText on a div containing multiple span elements, it will not select the text of each of those elements. That was a deal-breaker for me, YMMV.
Here's what I came up with, with a nod to lepe's answer for inspiration. I'm sure I'll be ridiculed as this is perhaps a bit heavy-handed (and actually could be moreso but I digress). But it works and avoids browser-sniffing and that's the point.
selectText:function(){
var range,
selection,
obj = this[0],
type = {
func:'function',
obj:'object'
},
// Convenience
is = function(type, o){
return typeof o === type;
};
if(is(type.obj, obj.ownerDocument)
&& is(type.obj, obj.ownerDocument.defaultView)
&& is(type.func, obj.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection)){
selection = obj.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection();
if(is(type.func, selection.setBaseAndExtent)){
// Chrome, Safari - nice and easy
selection.setBaseAndExtent(obj, 0, obj, $(obj).contents().size());
}
else if(is(type.func, obj.ownerDocument.createRange)){
range = obj.ownerDocument.createRange();
if(is(type.func, range.selectNodeContents)
&& is(type.func, selection.removeAllRanges)
&& is(type.func, selection.addRange)){
// Mozilla
range.selectNodeContents(obj);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
}
}
}
else if(is(type.obj, document.body) && is(type.obj, document.body.createTextRange)) {
range = document.body.createTextRange();
if(is(type.obj, range.moveToElementText) && is(type.obj, range.select)){
// IE most likely
range.moveToElementText(obj);
range.select();
}
}
// Chainable
return this;
}
That's it. Some of what you see is the for readability and/or convenience. Tested on Mac in latest versions of Opera, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE. Also tested in IE8. Also I typically only declare variables if/when needed inside code blocks but jslint suggested they all be declared up top. Ok jslint.
Edit
I forgot to include how to tie this in to the op's code:
function SelectText(element) {
$("#" + element).selectText();
}
Cheers
An Updated version that works in chrome:
function SelectText(element) {
var doc = document;
var text = doc.getElementById(element);
if (doc.body.createTextRange) { // ms
var range = doc.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(text);
range.select();
} else if (window.getSelection) {
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = doc.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(text);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
}
}
$(function() {
$('p').click(function() {
SelectText("selectme");
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/KcX6A/326/
For any tag one can select all text inside that tag by this short and simple code. It will highlight the entire tag area with yellow colour and select text inside it on single click.
document.onclick = function(event) {
var range, selection;
event.target.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
selection = window.getSelection();
range = document.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents(event.target);
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
};
Have a look at the Selection object (Gecko engine) and the TextRange object (Trident engine.) I don't know about any JavaScript frameworks that have cross-browser support for this implemented, but I've never looked for it either, so it's possible that even jQuery has it.
lepe - That works great for me thanks!
I put your code in a plugin file, then used it in conjunction with an each statement so you can have multiple pre tags and multiple "Select all" links on one page and it picks out the correct pre to highlight:
<script type="text/javascript" src="../js/jquery.selecttext.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".selectText").each(function(indx) {
$(this).click(function() {
$('pre').eq(indx).selText().addClass("selected");
return false;
});
});
});
Tim's method works perfectly for my case - selecting the text in a div for both IE and FF after I replaced the following statement:
range.moveToElementText(text);
with the following:
range.moveToElementText(el);
The text in the div is selected by clicking it with the following jQuery function:
$(function () {
$("#divFoo").click(function () {
selectElementText(document.getElementById("divFoo"));
})
});
here is another simple solution to get the selected the text in the form of string, you can use this string easily to append a div element child into your code:
var text = '';
if (window.getSelection) {
text = window.getSelection();
} else if (document.getSelection) {
text = document.getSelection();
} else if (document.selection) {
text = document.selection.createRange().text;
}
text = text.toString();
My particular use-case was selecting a text range inside an editable span element, which, as far as I could see, is not described in any of the answers here.
The main difference is that you have to pass a node of type Text to the Range object, as described in the documentation of Range.setStart():
If the startNode is a Node of type Text, Comment, or CDATASection,
then startOffset is the number of characters from the start of
startNode. For other Node types, startOffset is the number of child
nodes between the start of the startNode.
The Text node is the first child node of a span element, so to get it, access childNodes[0] of the span element. The rest is the same as in most other answers.
Here a code example:
var startIndex = 1;
var endIndex = 5;
var element = document.getElementById("spanId");
var textNode = element.childNodes[0];
var range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(textNode, startIndex);
range.setEnd(textNode, endIndex);
var selection = window.getSelection();
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange(range);
Other relevant documentation:
Range
Selection
Document.createRange()
Window.getSelection()
Added jQuery.browser.webkit to the "else if" for Chrome. Could not get this working in Chrome 23.
Made this script below for selecting the content in a <pre> tag that has the class="code".
jQuery( document ).ready(function() {
jQuery('pre.code').attr('title', 'Click to select all');
jQuery( '#divFoo' ).click( function() {
var refNode = jQuery( this )[0];
if ( jQuery.browser.msie ) {
var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText( refNode );
range.select();
} else if ( jQuery.browser.mozilla || jQuery.browser.opera || jQuery.browser.webkit ) {
var selection = refNode.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection();
console.log(selection);
var range = refNode.ownerDocument.createRange();
range.selectNodeContents( refNode );
selection.removeAllRanges();
selection.addRange( range );
} else if ( jQuery.browser.safari ) {
var selection = refNode.ownerDocument.defaultView.getSelection();
selection.setBaseAndExtent( refNode, 0, refNode, 1 );
}
} );
} );
According to the jQuery documentation of select():
Trigger the select event of each matched element. This causes all of the functions that have been bound to that select event to be executed, and calls the browser's default select action on the matching element(s).
There is your explanation why the jQuery select() won't work in this case.