JavaScript selection/range framework

Question

I've been working with selection/range objects, and because to the incredible amount of inconsistencies between browsers for specific selection/range stuff (even more than the DOM) I was wondering if there was a framework that would help me get through them.

Answer 1

I've written a new range/selection library called Rangy that is similar in concept to IERange but goes quite a lot further. The core is pretty much complete and currently available to download. I'm currently bugfixing and documenting it and it should be only be a few weeks before a full release.

UPDATE 31 August 2011

Rangy is now stable and at version 1.2 (downloads page).

Answer 2

(Made an answer by request ;)

Take a look at IERange:

IERange is a feature-complete implementation of W3C DOM Ranges for Internet Explorer, allowing users to write one cross-browser version of their range manipulation code.

Supports Range APIs:

• document.createRange()
• startContainer, startOffset, endContainer, endOffset, commonAncestorContainer, collapsed
• setStart(), setEnd(), setStartBefore(), setStartAfter(), setEndBefore(), setEndAfter(), selectNode(), selectNodeContents(), collapse()
• insertNode(), surroundContents()
• extractContents(), cloneContents(), deleteContents()
• compareBoundaryPoints(), cloneRange(), createContextualFragment(), toString()

Supports Selection APIs:

• Range support (Webkit-style)
• window.getSelection()
• addRange(), removeAllRanges(), getRangeAt(), toString()

Answer 3

fieldselection is a very usable jquery plugin for selection/range manipulation.