Get REAL RAW selection in from dreamweaver.

[nicksapoet]

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. I want a
result like this if this is what I have highlighted:

="anid">some text</d

NOT:

<div class="anid">some text</div>

The second is what dreaweaver defaults to, but I want to count the exact
number of characters highlighted or the number of characters in the entire
document, not just what is in the root node. 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 characters in
the document.

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. I want only what is selected.

Thanks,
Nick.

[nicksapoet]

Anyone have this problem?

[Tom Muck]

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. I want
> a
> result like this if this is what I have highlighted:
>
> ="anid">some text</d
>
> NOT:
>
> <div class="anid">some text</div>
>
> The second is what dreaweaver defaults to, but I want to count the exact
> number of characters highlighted or the number of characters in the entire
> document, not just what is in the root node. 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 characters
> in
> the document.
>
> 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. I want only what is selected.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick.
>
>
>
>
>

[nicksapoet]

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