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Essentially I want to add a button to the toolbar to allow the user to insert © into the textangular editor (http://textangular.com/), however I am having trouble understanding how to add functionality to my button after it has been registered... As all the examples for custom functionality on the textangular site use the same statement "wrapSelection" which has very minimal documentation, an example of this is shown below with the quote button.

    taRegisterTool('quote', {
    iconclass: 'fa fa-quote-right',
    tooltiptext: taTranslations.quote.tooltip,
    action: function(){
        return this.$editor().wrapSelection("formatBlock", "<BLOCKQUOTE>");
    },
    activeState: function(){ return this.$editor().queryFormatBlockState('blockquote'); }
});

I am confused as to where the "formatBlock" is initialised and believe finding its source would help me with this problem. As you can see any help would be appreciated

    taRegisterTool('insertCopyright', {
        buttontext: '&copy;',
        tooltiptext: taTranslations.insertCopyright.tooltip,
        action: function () {
            //???
       },
    });
  • I'll take a note about the wrapSelection poor docs - It's basically a wrapper for `execCommand` but we fix some of the inconsistent calls. – Simeon Cheeseman Oct 07 '14 at 21:18

1 Answers1

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Just thought I would post our workaround answer for anyone wishing to insert custom symbols or anything like that, obviously we can move the 'insertTextAtCursor' and 'moveCaret' elsewhere to cleanup but regardless..

    taRegisterTool('insertCopyright', {
            buttontext: '&copy;',
            tooltiptext: taTranslations.insertCopyright.tooltip,
            action: function() {
                function insertTextAtCursor(text) {
                    var sel, range;
                    if (window.getSelection) {
                        sel = window.getSelection();
                        if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
                            range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
                            range.deleteContents();
                            range.insertNode(document.createTextNode(text));
                        }
                    } else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
                        document.selection.createRange().text = text;
                    }
                }

                function moveCaret(charCount) {
                    var sel, range;
                    if (window.getSelection) {
                        sel = window.getSelection();
                        if (sel.rangeCount > 0) {
                            var textNode = sel.focusNode;
                            sel.collapse(textNode.nextSibling, charCount);
                        }
                    } else if ((sel = window.document.selection)) {
                        if (sel.type != "Control") {
                            range = sel.createRange();
                            range.move("character", charCount);
                            range.select();
                        }
                    }
                }

                insertTextAtCursor(String.fromCharCode(169));
                return moveCaret(1);
            },
        });