Question

In Firefox, you can simply call:

myInputTextField.selectionStart or myInputTextField.selectionEnd

to get the first and last indices of the selected text in the input box.

In IE, I know that you can call document.selection.createRange() to fiddle with the selection a little bit. For the life of me, however, I have not found any value that represents that character offset within the selection.

Am I missing something? Is there any way to get the same value in IE?

Thank you!

Alex

Answer 1

A direct quote from a previous response to a very similar question that will get you a selection range:

function getSelection(inputBox) {         if ('selectionStart' in inputBox) {                 return {                         start: inputBox.selectionStart,                         end: inputBox.selectionEnd                 }         }          //and now, the blinkered IE way         var bookmark = document.selection.createRange().getBookmark()         var selection = inputBox.createTextRange()         selection.moveToBookmark(bookmark)          var before = inputBox.createTextRange()         before.collapse(true)         before.setEndPoint('EndToStart', selection)          var beforeLength = before.text.length         var selLength = selection.text.length          return {                 start: beforeLength,                 end: beforeLength + selLength         } }