User talk:Gerbrant/edit/selection.js

Gerbrant.edit.selection

Allows scripts to edit the selected text in textareas, in particular the selected text in the article editing textarea.

IE quirk: this script will cause the textarea in question to receive focus, because IE has no way to retreive the selection in textareas without focussing them.

Non-IE quirk: this script will set the selection in a setTimeout, because Firefox, Konqueror and others modify the selection or display other weird behaviour when scripts stop running and the value of a textarea has been changed.

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replaceTextareaSelection(t, f)

If f is defined, replaces the selection text in textarea t with the result of applying f to it.

Returns the old selection text.

replaceSelection(f)

If f is defined, replaces the selection text in the article editing textarea with the result of applying f to it.

Returns the old selection text.