Question

I am having an small code to select an text in CKEditor. For that i am using following code in javascript.

        var docx = editor.document;
        var elementx = docx.getById(id);
        editor.getSelection().selectElement(elementx);
        editor.getSelection().scrollIntoView(true);

It works fine in Mozilla Firefox.But in IE9 it throws an error as selectElement is not an object. So i checked the code and found that getSelection() having an null value. Please help me how to solve it.
I tried some answers given in various sites even in CKEditor fourms nothing helped me.

Answer 1

That’s the correct solution:

var editor = CKEDITOR.instances.editor1;
editor.focus(); // Without this selection will be null on IE.

var element = editor.document.getBody().getLast(),
    selection = editor.getSelection();

selection.selectElement(element); // You have to reuse selection.
selection.scrollIntoView();

I tested this from the console on Firefox, Chrome and IE8 on http://ckeditor.com/demo and it worked.