mouse select text

[iulian]

Hi,
If I select some text with mouse in a webpage, how can I know what I selected? For example, if i select this text now and I press B(old) this text is surrounded by [ B ] [ /B ]. How can I achieve this?

[bosko]

Look here:
http://www.massless.org/mozedit/
http://www.webreference.com/js/colum...ssbrowser.html

Combine these two and learn DOM.

[Kravvitz]

bosko, the code shown in the second page you linked to doesn't work for text in a textarea.

Here are some more resources:
How can I manipulate the selection and the caret in an input type="text" element in Mozilla browsers and IE/Win?
http://www.alexking.org/blog/2003/06...ng-javascript/
http://parentnode.org/javascript/wor...rsor-position/

[bosko]

bosko, the code shown in the second page you linked to doesn't work for text in a textarea.

That code is a great example how to put selection from page into textarea dynamically. Or how to work with selections in general. I though that it could help since it helped me.

[Kravvitz]

I'm not saying that it can't be useful at all. I'm just saying that it doesn't work in one common situation.

[iulian]

Thanks guys!

Putting together all the informations comes out exactly what I needed.