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Subject: Determine text selection start and end positions in HTML/JavaScript
Category: Computers > Programming
Asked by: jeanlucpicard-ga
List Price: $40.00

Posted: 22 Oct 2006 05:40 PDT
Expires: 26 Oct 2006 11:37 PDT
Question ID: 775769

Exhibit 1 (simple web page).
<html><body>abcbcba<input type="botton"></body></html>

Scenario:
1- In a web browser, user selects the first occurence of the string 'bcb'
2- User clicks on the button

Needs:
- System replies by displaying an alert (message box) with 2,3: 2 is
the starting position of the selection, and 3 is the length of the
selection

Clarification of Question by jeanlucpicard-ga on 23 Oct 2006 11:10 PDT
Is this even possible?

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