IE: select() method on an editable anchor object

[Termin_Terminator]

Hello everybody,

I am using an HTML anchor "<A contenteditable=true></A>" element with
the property 'contenteditable=true' to make it editable for the user.

Inside JScript or JavaScript I am looking for a way to select the
content of this anchor via Code.
There is already the JScript method "select()" but it works only on
INPUT and TEXTAREA objects and not on A objects.

Please any advice? Thanks in advance.

Good bye -
Termin_Terminator

[Martin Honnen]

Termin_Terminator wrote:

I am using an HTML anchor "<A contenteditable=true></A>" element with
the property 'contenteditable=true' to make it editable for the user.

Inside JScript or JavaScript I am looking for a way to select the
content of this anchor via Code.
There is already the JScript method "select()" but it works only on
INPUT and TEXTAREA objects and not on A objects.

select is an IE DOM method, not a JScript method.
As for selecting the contents of an element with IE, create a range with
the element, then call the select method:

var element = document.getElementById('someElementId');
var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(element);
range.select();

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Martin Honnen
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