Retrieve/Replace Selected Text With jQuery
Posted By : todd sharp Posted At : July 31, 2009 2:02 PM Posted In: jQuery
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Here's another very helpful jQuery plugin that I found recently. The jQuery fieldSelection plugin gives you a simple API to retrieve and replace the currently selected text in an input or textarea.
Once you include the plugin you just do a simple call to retrieve the selection:
var s = $('#foo').getSelection();
console.dir(s);
console.dir(s);
The code above would dump an object to the console with the following elements:
- id
- start
- end
- length
- text
To replace the current selection you would call replaceSelection like so:
$('#foo').replaceSelection('new text',true);
I'm using this plugin for a top secret enhancement for BlogCFC that I hope will be released very soon. More on that in the next few days.
