The suggestion reproduced below did not work in my version of Mozilla
(Mozilla 1.0.1, build Gecko/20020830).
I added the statement near the end of eventer():
alert("selection start: " + a + "\nselection end: " + b
+ "\nselected substring: " + val.substring(a,b-a)
+ "\noriginal string: " + val);
The file was put in an htdocs subdirectory of an apache Web server running
on my computer, and I loaded the page into Mozilla browser using the URL:
http://localhost/xxx_substrings.html
After I select a substring, the alert window pops up and according to it,
the values of a and b are both 'undefined'.
Is it a known bug in Mozilla 1.0.1?
Is there anything which I should check in the Web server configuration or
whatever?
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Oded Arbel wrote:
> Don't understand what's the big deal about. haven't read the above document,
> but if I'd want to replace selected text in a text area, I'd probably do
> something similar to this minimalistic test case (works in Mozilla, doesn't
> in konqi. don't know much about anything else):
>
> <html><head><script>
> function eventer(e) {
> if (e.type != "select") {
> alert("not onselect");
> return;
> }
> var mytext = "replaced";
> var a = e.target.selectionStart;
> var b = e.target.selectionEnd;
> var val = e.target.value;
!!!!!!!!!! Here I inserted the alert() call !!!!!!!!!!
> e.target.value = val.substring(0,a) + mytext + val.substring(b);
> }
> </script></head><body>
> <form>
> <textarea id="testy" cols="40" rows="10" onselect="eventer(event);">
> This is a long text from which I'm going to select
> </textarea>
> </form></body></html>
--- Omer
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