Get the real actual selection in code view. DOM getselection

Wow great Tom Muck, that worked well.

I think dreamweaver should add the source property to the extension help section under: Objects, properties, and methods of the Dreamweaver DOM

Thanks again.
Nick Juntilla

Try this:

var dom = dw.getDocumentDOM();
var theSel = dom.source.getSelection();
var startPoint = theSel[0];
var endPoint = theSel[1];
alert(dom.source.getText(startPoint,endPoint));

It's a bit wordy for clarity, but that should get you what you want.


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"nicksapoet" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Dreamweaver automatically gives you the whole node if you have part of the
> inside of a tag selected. I want exactly what I have highlighted in the
> code
> view not a node.
>
> Correct would be:
>
> ="anid">some text</d
>
> Not expanded to something like this:
>
> <div class="anid">some text</div>
>
> The second is what dreaweaver defaults to, but I want to count the exact
> number of characters highlighted in code view or the number of characters
> in
> the entire document. In fact I'd like to not use the DOM at all. Is
> there a
> way to just get a raw array of all the selection without auto-expanding to
> the
> nearest node.
>
> I'm using this code:
>
> var theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
> var theWholeDoc = theDOM.documentElement.outerHTML;
>
> var theSel = dreamweaver.getSelection(); // Extract the selection
> var selText = theWholeDoc.substring(theSel[0],theSel[1]);
> alert(selText);
>
> Any help is much appreciated, this is very frustrating. In other words I
> don't just want to get the selection by whole nodes, I want to get the
> selection even if it starts halfway through one tag and ends halfway into
> another.
>
> Thanks!!!
> Nick
>
>