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hello. is it possible to copy selected text from DIV, TABLE or eg. P to
form's TEXTAREA? I'm searching solution working on possibly all browsers.
thank you.

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waste
http://marti.presents.pl/
Jul 23 '05 #1
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Ron
waste wrote:
hello. is it possible to copy selected text from DIV, TABLE or eg. P to
form's TEXTAREA? I'm searching solution working on possibly all browsers.
thank you.

Not in a standard way. IE4+ uses the document.selection object to refer
to the current selection while Gecko-based browsers have the
window.getSelection() method.
See http://www.mozilla.org/docs/dom/domr...4.html#1000044
and
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/a..._selection.asp
..
Jul 23 '05 #2
2004-05-29 16:34:59, na comp.lang.javascript, Ron napisał(a):
Not in a standard way. IE4+ uses the document.selection object to refer
to the current selection while Gecko-based browsers have the
window.getSelection() method.

thank you. is there some method for Opera, too?

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waste
http://marti.presents.pl/
Jul 23 '05 #3


waste wrote:
2004-05-29 16:34:59, na comp.lang.javascript, Ron napisał(a):

Not in a standard way. IE4+ uses the document.selection object to refer
to the current selection while Gecko-based browsers have the
window.getSelection() method.


thank you. is there some method for Opera, too?


As far as I know not.
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Jul 23 '05 #4

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