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8.3

Script for reading selected text in field and selecting text between open and close tag.

Asked by merrydown in JavaScript, JavaScript Frameworks

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I am trying to make an enhanced cms and am trying to make the text entry sections a bit smarter.  

I'd likea routine such that a person can highlight a piece of text they have written and select it to be body text, h3 / h4, bold, italic or strikethrough.  I'll style the selected text in the field accordingly, in realtime.  I haven't checked out styling in a text field but assume its possible.  The reading of selected text I have seen elsewhere.

I then need to allow the user to click on the text field and the routine to read the position of the cursor and (this is the tricky bit) select the text beween the nearest open tag (to the left) and close tag (to the right) if indeed the cursor is between anything other than the textarea tags.

A public domain script I could modify would be the lazy option, but I am open to any help on this.  The CRUCIAL part of this question I suppose is whether it is possible or not to select a portion of the innerHTML of the text area and have it selected without the user needing to select it (beyond clicking within it).  Otherwise I would have thought I'd have to fake a text field and do all the above with live javascript calls and styles to a container rather than using form objects at all...

I hope the above makes sense.  If Anything needs explaining I'd be glad to make myself clearer!

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