I'm getting the user's selection as an object by using the <b>dw.offsetsToNode</b> method. I want to wrap that node, in another node.

example.<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>if I've got
&lt;td&gt;hello&lt;/td&gt;

I would want to wrap the &lt;td&gt; node in

&lt;tr&gt;&lt;Td&gt;hello&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>

what's the best way to do that... is there a dom method for that?

thanks,

Joel Martinez

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I would do that with the two functions :

theDOM.getSelection();
theDOM.setSelection();

getSelection gives you an array of two offsets. So you take the whole text by :

var theDocEl = theDOM.documentElement;
var theWholeDoc = theDocEl.outerHTML;

you get then the text selection with

var selText = theWholeDoc.substring(theSel[0],theSel[1]);

And finally you put your enclosing tag around the selection with this :

theDocEl.outerHTML=theWholeDoc.substring(0,theSel[0]) + "&lt;tr&gt;"+ selText+"&lt;/tr&gt;"+ theWholeDoc.substring(theSel[1]);

Then you set the selection where it was :


theDOM.setSelection(theSel[0],theSel[1]);


BTW, I experienced problem with Preview, so I'm not sure if my text is coherent...<img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

I know that it works, because I did this once to enclose the selection into a form or a table. It is very boring that sometimes you design a very nice form then you realize that you forgot the form tag. Or when you want to nest a table into another table...

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi

Edited by - Maehdros on 07/27/2001 00:04:52

that's exactly what I was doing, but I came across an issue. Say you have this text:<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>&lt;p&gt;
hello
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
I am the boogie man
&lt;p&gt;</font id=code></pre id=code>When you select that in the design view, UD will not select the first and last tags, so you're left with this selection:<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>hello
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
I am the boogie man</font id=code></pre id=code>Then UD gives you those horrible yellow "invalid markup" tags.

that's why I was going with the DOM approach, because it will select the whole node... but now I need a way to wrap the node with another.

Joel Martinez

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That is why MM invented this very sneaky function:

<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>fixUpSelection(dreamweaver.getDocumentDOM()); </font id=code></pre id=code>

It is declared in Configuration\Shared\UltraDev\Scripts\ssDocmanager.js

Here is the exmplanation of the function:
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>//*-------------------------------------------------------------------
// FUNCTION:
// fixUpSelection
//
// DESCRIPTION:
// Fixes up the selection so that it is "clean", e.g.:
// expands &lt;a href="foo"&gt;[begin selection] some text&lt;/a&gt;[end selection]
// to be [begin selection]&lt;a href="foo"&gt;some text&lt;/a&gt;[end selection]
// Also expands table cell selections of more than one cell to be the entire row,
// and if the selection is not in the body, places cursor at end of body
//
// ARGUMENTS:
// dom - the dom containing the selection to fix
// bLeaveHeadSelection - leave the selection in the head
// bCollapseParagraphs -
// bReturnOffsets - if set to true, the function returns the offsets,
// rather than the selected string
//
// RETURNS:
// the text string of the new and improved balanced selection or, if
// bReturnOffsets is true, returns the offsets of the balanced selection.
//--------------------------------------------------------------------</font id=code></pre id=code>

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He He, I came across exactly the same issue, and that was why I never posted my extension, because I hadn't time to polish it.

Indeed this function is very useful...Thanks for the info.

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you Win..." Ghandi

Sweet!!!

man, that's a great function. I looked into the .js file, that is some serious coding...

thanks george

Joel Martinez

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Always glad to be of any help <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle>

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