This is the code (now is full):
HTML:
<div id="content" contentEditable="true" onkeyup="highlight(this)">This is some area to type.</div>
Javascript:
function highlight(elem){
// store cursor position
var cursorPos=document.selection.createRange().duplicate();
var clickx = cursorPos.getBoundingClientRect().left;
var clicky = cursorPos.getBoundingClientRect().top;
// copy contents of div
var content = elem.innerHTML;
var replaceStart = '';
var replaceEnd = '';
// only replace/move cursor if any matches
// note the spacebands - this prevents duplicates
if(content.match(/ test /)) {
elem.innerHTML = content.replace(/ test /g,' '+replaceStart+'test'+replaceEnd+' ');
// reset cursor and focus
cursorPos = document.body.createTextRange();
cursorPos.moveToPoint(clickx, clicky);
cursorPos.select();
}
}
Just woks on IE, unhapply.
Anyone can 'adjust' this code, to work on FF too!...
Thanks
Edit[1]:
Div Editable and More... More
This code replaces a especific word by the same word formatted...
And the caret (cursor) stay always after the word replaced! <<< "This is the big"
But just works on IE, and I like so much to rewrite this code to work on FF... but I can't do it... Its so hard...
Anyone can help?
Edit[2]:
My problem is just with this part:
// reset cursor and focus
cursorPos = document.body.createTextRange();
cursorPos.moveToPoint(clickx, clicky);
cursorPos.select();
Because, moveToPotion and select functions just works on IE... Until then it is easy...
On FF there is another set of functions that make it possible... But i don't know how to write another code that do the same things. Do you got it?
You can preserve the caret position by inserting a marker element at its current location before doing your replacement on the element's innerHTML
. (Using DOM methods to traverse the text nodes and searching each for the text you want would be preferable to using innerHTML
, by the way).
The following works, so long as the caret is not positioned within or adjacent to the word "text". I also added a timer to prevent calling this function every time a key is pressed and to wait for the user to stop typing for half a second.
function insertCaretMarker() {
var range;
var markerId = "sel_" + new Date() + "_" + ("" + Math.random()).substr(2);
if (window.getSelection) {
var sel = window.getSelection();
range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.collapse(true);
var markerEl = document.createElement("span");
markerEl.appendChild(document.createTextNode("\u00a0"));
markerEl.id = markerId;
range.insertNode(markerEl);
} else if (document.selection && document.selection.createRange) {
range = document.selection.createRange();
range.collapse(true);
if (range.pasteHTML) {
range.pasteHTML("<span id=\"" + markerId + "\"> </span>");
}
}
return markerId;
}
function restoreCaret(markerId) {
var el = document.getElementById(markerId);
var range;
if (el) {
if (window.getSelection && document.createRange) {
var sel = window.getSelection();
range = document.createRange();
range.setStartBefore(el);
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(range);
} else if (document.body.createTextRange) {
range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(el);
range.collapse(true);
range.select();
}
el.parentNode.removeChild(el);
}
}
function preserveCaretPosition(func) {
var id = insertCaretMarker();
func();
restoreCaret(id);
}
var highlightTimer;
function highlight(elem) {
if (highlightTimer) {
window.clearTimeout(highlightTimer);
}
highlightTimer = window.setTimeout(function() {
highlightTimer = null;
var replaceStart = '<b>';
var replaceEnd = '</b>';
// only replace/move cursor if any matches
// note the spacebands - this prevents duplicates
if (elem.innerHTML.match(/ test /)) {
preserveCaretPosition(function() {
elem.innerHTML = elem.innerHTML.replace(/ test /g, ' ' + replaceStart + 'test' + replaceEnd + ' ');
});
}
}, 500);
}