How to select the text of the page in FireFox? For example, there's a paragraph of text, user select the text in those paragraph in a regular way.then, I want to know in which paragraph the text selected by user (in which position-xy coordinates, range position).
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You've asked about selection coordinates twice before. I know I've given you a working answer, so why are you asking again?
Here's some code that will return you the innermost element containing the selection in Firefox (assuming a single selection; Firefox allows multiple selections). Hope it's helpful.
function getSelectionContainerElement() {
var sel = window.getSelection(), el = null;
if (sel.rangeCount) {
var range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
el = range.commonAncestorContainer;
if (el.nodeType != 1) {
el = el.parentNode;
}
}
return el;
}
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yes, but I am confused to implement because the main problem is that I want to use the function to know the position of the selected text to locate an index of the array that I have. – user495688 Nov 11 '10 at 10:32
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Position of the selected text relative to what? – Tim Down Nov 11 '10 at 12:48
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relative with the following text, for example i have sentence like this **the harvest is the process of gathering mature crops from the fields** and the selected text is 'gathering'. then i want to know indeces of the following text (i meant the text between 'gathering') – user495688 Nov 11 '10 at 15:16
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refer the getSelection(), to get an object which contains information about the selected text and its position in the parent Element
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You can find the exact answer here
but this module is under construction, You can browse project and find this module.
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