- From: Frank Boumphrey <boumphreyfr@agentbrand.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 12:52:42 -0400
- To: "Mark Birbeck" <Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net>
- Cc: <www-forms-editor@w3.org>
Mark, Thanks for your reply. Certainly (if implemented) DOM Range would allow one to manipulate the textnode of an xhtml textarea element, however it would still not provide the means for a user to manipulate text in the textbox. In fact the text in the text box can already be manipulated by standard Javascript text methods, but what is needed is a series of event properties that allow the application to discover what the user is doing with the text cursor. At a minimum one needs to know the position or start position of the text cursor within the box, and the number of characters selected. If we had that we could write code to do all the rest. For example if the text between the carets was highlighted: Lorem ip^sum^ dolor sit amet, getPosCursor() or getSelTextStart() ...would return 8 getSelTextLen() ...would return 3 Frank Frank Boumphrey (Latest Book co-authored 'XML.NET Developers Guide' from Syngress Press by Sills, Boumphrey and Ortiz)
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