I am trying to apply style to the text selected by the user(mouse drag) for which I need to get the start and end index of the selected text. I have tried using "indexOf(...)" method. but it retu...

I have a html page with text content. On selecting any text and pressing the highlight button, I can change the style of the selected text to highlight the same. To implement this feature, i have w...

If I'm inserting content into a textarea that TinyMCE has co-opted, what's the best way to set the position of the cursor/caret? I'm using tinyMCE.execCommand("mceInsertRawHTML", false, content); ...

I have contentEditable element (can be p, div, ...) and I would like to get caret (cursor) position in it. I can normally achieve it with this piece of code: var position = window.getSelection().g...

I have a Spinner, and put the selected item in the body of a mail. this is my code: @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentV...

I would like to select all text on a page programmatically with the exact same result as if I would press key combo Ctrl+A. The problem with using document.getSelection().selectAllChildren(body) i...

I've got a script that changes the background colour of text that has been selected. However i'm encountering an issue when the text is selected across multiple elements/tags. The code that i've ...

I am trying to capture the result of Intent.createChooser to know which app a user selected for sharing. I know there have been a lot of posts related to this: How to know which application the...

I have a contenteditable div and want to get the user's selection when they click a span. My problem is that when I click the span, the selection gets unselected so window.getSelection().toString(...

I can use the following code to get selected text: text=window.getSelection(); /// for Firefox text=document.selection.createRange().text; /// for IE But how can I get the selected Html, wh...

I'm a little confused why doesn't this code work! The HTML Markup: <div id="diva"><b>Score</b> some <i>goals</i></div> <div id="soda"></div> The ...

I use the window.getSelection() method on my project to make a quotable text It's working just fine in all modern browsers, exept IE10. In IE10 console returns correct text, but the selection is b...

When using methods of selecting text and restoring selected text in a page, I have found that running execCommand('insertHTML... inbetween causes the stored selection to break. This is a sample of...

How would I get the raw HTML of the selected content on a page using Javascript? For the sake of simplicity, I'm sticking with browsers supporting window.getSelection. Here is an example; the cont...

I'm using this function in order to replace <DIV>New Divs</DIV> with <BR> in break lines on contentEditable divs using Safari and Chrome: $("#form_description").live("keypress", ...

My problem is similar to this, but I need a way to get the coordinates of the right side of the selection with Javascript in Firefox. I made a small example to show what I mean: The code I got f...

I've done a bit of research but can't seem to find a definitive answer regarding getting the currently selected text via getSelection() in an iPhone bookmarklet. Is this still possible? It seems th...

I'm forgetting about cross-browser compatibility for the moment, I just want this to work. What I'm doing is trying to modify a script (and you probably don't need to know this) located at typegree...

I would like to position element above selected text. But I am not able to figure out the coordinates. var sel = document.getSelection(); if(sel != null) { positionDiv(); } Example: (image) ...

I am building a web-based annotation tool, where end users can select and annotate a section of text from an HTML document. Programmatically speaking, accessing and working with the selected text a...