finding cordinates of selected text

[Adnan Siddiqi]

Hi

Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the
cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them
later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.
Thankyou

-adnan

[Julian Turner]

Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

Hi

Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the
cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them
later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.
Thankyou

-adnan

If you search this newsgroup using the terms "coordinate selected
text", then you will be able to find the following post which gives you
a starting point:-

<URL:http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/47f8544a7e1f5885/d49b5d2de4f0e048?q=coordinates+selected+text&rnum= 2#d49b5d2de4f0e048>

It is always advisable to search the group first, and then ask your
question.

Regards

Julian Turner

[Martin Honnen]

Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the
cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them
later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.

What kind of selected text is that? For Mozilla/Firefox if the text
selected is in a text control (input, textarea) then those expose
input.selectionStart
input.selectionEnd
respetively
textarea.selectionStart
textarea.selectionEnd
If it is normal text not in a text control then check the selection
object API here
<http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/Selection.html#method_extend>
you get at that selection object by doing
var selection = window.getSelection();
then you would need to store
selection.anchorNode
selection.anchorOffset
selection.focusNode
selection.focusOffset
to be able to restore that selection later.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Adnan Siddiqi]

Julian Turner wrote:

Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

Hi

Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the
cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them
later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.
Thankyou

-adnan

If you search this newsgroup using the terms "coordinate selected
text", then you will be able to find the following post which gives you
a starting point:-

<URL:http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.lang.javascript/browse_frm/thread/47f8544a7e1f5885/d49b5d2de4f0e048?q=coordinates+selected+text&rnum= 2#d49b5d2de4f0e048>

It is always advisable to search the group first, and then ask your
question.

Regards

Julian Turner

Sorry I will follow your advise while posting on newsgrops.I am
exploring the link you gave.

Thanks

-adnan

[Adnan Siddiqi]

Martin Honnen wrote:

Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

Pardon me if I am not making any sense.What I want to know the
cordinates of selected text by user so that i can save/retrieve them
later.is It possible.I am lookig for both IE and Firefox solution.

What kind of selected text is that? For Mozilla/Firefox if the text
selected is in a text control (input, textarea) then those expose
input.selectionStart
input.selectionEnd
respetively
textarea.selectionStart
textarea.selectionEnd
If it is normal text not in a text control then check the selection
object API here
<http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/Selection.html#method_extend>
you get at that selection object by doing
var selection = window.getSelection();
then you would need to store
selection.anchorNode
selection.anchorOffset
selection.focusNode
selection.focusOffset
to be able to restore that selection later.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Dear Martin

It would definately not some text within form controls.I am talking
about the content which appear on page within commonly used tags but I
am not sure that whether some text is selected,it selects the TEXT only
or HTML behind it.I will go thru your xul link since i am actually
going to use script for a firefox extension.

It would be nice if I could have some example to implement these
selection functions.

-adnan