I have the following phrase:
The birds fly in the sky near planes.
0123456789012345678901234567890123456
1 2 3
How can I highlight in the sky
with TinyMce if I know the start(14) and end(23) of the phrase ?
I would like to use the setRng
method but I didn't find any sample code.
I have the following phrase:
The birds fly in the sky near planes.
0123456789012345678901234567890123456
1 2 3
How can I highlight in the sky
with TinyMce if I know the start(14) and end(23) of the phrase ?
I would like to use the setRng
method but I didn't find any sample code.
- Is it required to find the string by position, or would it be sufficient to find the string by the search-string? – Dr.Molle Commented Dec 4, 2011 at 2:34
- Actually, I send the whole content if tinymce editor to a server. The server then replies back with some information. This information contains start and end of strings to be highlighted. Modifying the information sent by the server is not an option. – Stephan Commented Dec 4, 2011 at 2:40
- It seems that you implemented a real time collaboration editor on tinymce. Can you please enlight me how did you detect that the user selected a piece of text on tinymce? onselect does not work and I have been looking all over for an alternative. Thanks :) – Bernice Commented Mar 28, 2013 at 19:58
2 Answers
Reset to default 5Here is the solution I came up with :
var ed = tinyMCE.activeEditor;
var range = ed.selection.getRng();
range.setStart(textNode, start);
range.setEnd(textNode, end);
ed.selection.setRng(range);
Where :
- textNode can be a DOM text node that you can retrieve with
getElementById
or any other short-hand properties (parent
,nextSibling
etc) - start and end are respectively the beginning and the end of the text you want to select
I prefer this solution because I only use the tinyMCE API. I don't rely on objects and methods that can change (in behavior, in bugs ...) from browser to browser.
Try:
var range = document.createRange(); var start = document.getElementById('tinymce'); //var textNode = start.getElementsByTagName('p')[0].firstChild; //edited var textNode = start.getElementsByTagName('your_tag_where_you_have_the_text')[0].firstChild; range.setStart(textNode, 14); range.setEnd(textNode, 23); window.getSelection().addRange(range);