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Asked: 2026-05-27T23:03:10+00:00

I’m using an IHTMLTxtRange object instance to replace the current user’s selection in the

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I’m using an IHTMLTxtRange object instance to replace the current user’s selection in the browser.

Today, i came across the following problem. This is my markup:

<body><p><a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a></p></body>

The user selection (html), as informed by the IHMLTxtRange instance (range), is:

<a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a>

Whenever i execute range.replaceHTML("test"); the result is:

<body><p><a href="http://www.google.com">test</a></p></body>

This behavior seems to apply also to scenarios like this:

<body><p><b>some text</b></p></body>

Can anyone help me to develop a consistent selection replacement strategy? I mean, that text selection works as expected.

Thanks

Update 10/05/2012: Clarified experienced problem

Coming back now I realize that the problem was not explicited correctly. I expected to replace the whole string <a href="http://www.google.com">http://www.google.com</a> with test. Instead, the innerText of the anchor was replaced, leaving it´s markup untouched.

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    Solution Review

    Finally, I’ve found the answer to this one through the Internet Explorer Extension Development forums.

    As a side note, from the the answer I received, this problem also seems to happen when using the pasteHTML method on an IHTMLTxtRange object. There’s even a closed issue describing this problem in the Microsoft Connect website.

    Workaround

    I fixed the problem, based on the answer I got, by checking whether the current element in the range is an anchor: if that’s the case, the parent element of the current element is removed and the desired text is inserted in its place.

    I had to do this check also for styling elements: <B>, <I> and <FONT> tags.

    Be sure to check the question I got answered for more information.

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