Text range selection empty desn't work in IE 7,8

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It's little hard to explain problem, so better to show example.

Code automatically replaced Latin alphabet to Armenian. In FF/Chrome/Opera it works great. In IE almost too. BUT if you select some text an try to write, typed character is replacing previous.

I tried

document.selection.empty();

but it doesn't help.

Do you know any method to reset/empty selection and leave cursor in same place in IE?

Thanks!

The link is to localhost, which -in my case- doesn't contain a `Keyboard/test.php` file ;) — Jeroen, Dec 03 '11 at 12:01
Maybe you could replace the old char, for example `a`, to `å`, then set the selection to span#cursor? — biziclop, Dec 03 '11 at 12:35
That span tag is visible in textarea. Maybe it will work for wysiwygs. — Narek, Dec 03 '11 at 12:42

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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I've written a couple of answers on Stack Overflow that address this:

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answered Dec 05 '11 at 00:49

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:11

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Looks like your IE-specific code indeed needs some extra code to set the cursor at the correct spot. Have a look at the MSDN documentation on TextRange, from what I can see you'd need the collapse method?

Also have a look at this SO question, I think that discusses exactly your problem.

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answered Dec 03 '11 at 12:56

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Text range selection empty desn't work in IE 7,8

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