I am developing an application where I am using CKEditor. I have provided a button called clear. Whenever user selects some part of text and clicks on clear button only the selected text should get deleted.

I used the below code in my application but whenever user clicks on clear button not only selected text but whole content gets deleted.

 function clear_onclick() {
        CKEDITOR.instances.message.setData('');
 }

How can I clear the selected text from CKEditor on click of clear button in ASP.Net MVC2?

I am developing an application where I am using CKEditor. I have provided a button called clear. Whenever user selects some part of text and clicks on clear button only the selected text should get deleted.

I used the below code in my application but whenever user clicks on clear button not only selected text but whole content gets deleted.

 function clear_onclick() {
        CKEDITOR.instances.message.setData('');
 }

How can I clear the selected text from CKEditor on click of clear button in ASP.Net MVC2?

• javascript
• ckeditor

2 Answers 2

This will do the job:

var range = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1.getSelection().getRanges()[ 0 ];
range.deleteContents();
range.select(); // Select emptied range to place the caret in its place.

Try this:

CKEDITOR.instances["textAreaId"].getSelection().getSelectedText().setData('');