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Get Selected Text

Last post 04-03-2014, 11:44 AM by jeff330ci. 2 replies.


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In client-side script I need to get the selected text. Here is what I have tried.

1. var selectionType = editor.GetSelectionType()

2. if (selectionType == 'Range') {

3. var selectedRangeText = editor.SelectContent(editor.GetPointNode());

4. }

Line 3 fails with selectedRangeText is 'undefined';

What do I need to get the text, and only the text , that is selected?

Thanks.

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Hi jeff330ci,

Please try the way below.

<%@ Page Language="c#" ValidateRequest="false" %>
<%@ Register TagPrefix="RTE" Namespace="RTE" Assembly="RichTextEditor" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form id="Form1" method="post" runat="server">
<RTE:Editor ID="Editor1" runat="server" />
<input type="button" value="get select content" onclick="getSelectContent()" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getSelectContent() {
var editor1 = document.getElementById('<%= Editor1.ClientID%>').editor;
//get select html
var selhtml = editor1.ExtractRangeHTML();
//get plain text
var plainText = jsml.html_decode(selhtml);
alert(plainText);
}
</script>

Regards,

Ken

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That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!