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Get caret (cursor) position in contentEditable area containing HTML 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().getRangeAt(0).startOffset; This works fine while the…
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How to get selected html text with javascript?

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, which includes the text and html tags?
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What's the best way to set cursor/caret position?

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); to insert the content, and I'd like set the cursor…
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Javascript selected text highlighting prob

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 written the following method. sel =…
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How to find index of selected text in getSelection() using javascript?

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 returns the first occurrence of the selected substring. I…
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getSelection & surroundContents across multiple tags

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 got is: var text =…
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How to support multiple text selections cross browser?

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 and corresponding range is straightforward using…
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window.getSelection() for contenteditable div *on click*

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() returns ''. How can I get this to work on click of…
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how do I get co-ordinates of selected text in an html using javascript document.getSelecttion()

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)
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Mimic Ctrl+A with JavaScript

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) is that the selection will also include text nodes…
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How to get the coordinates of the end of selected text with javascript?

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 from the other post is the following: var range =…
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Need to set cursor position to the end of a contentEditable div, issue with selection and range objects

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 typegreek.com The basic script is found here. Basically what…
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Get Chosen App from Intent.createChooser

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 user chose when using an intent…
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Get the raw HTML of selected content using javascript

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 content between both | represent my selection.

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getSelection() broken in IE10

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 broken. The only code I used: text =…
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