Web Development with jQuery®

Creating a Selection (^) ❘ 475
document.execCommand(data.format, false,
this[this.selectedIndex].value);
this.selectedIndex = 0 ;
$('div#container').focus();
}
}
);
$('button#btnCreateSelection').click(
function()
{
var container = document.getElementById('container');
container.innerHTML = 'Here is some sample text for selection';
var range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(container.firstChild, 5 );
range.setEnd(container.firstChild, 17 );
setSelectionRange(range);
}
);
$('button#btnStoreSelection').click(
function()
{
window.selectedRange = getSelectionRange();
}
);
$('button#btnRestoreSelection').click(
function()
{
if (window.selectedRange)
{
setSelectionRange(window.selectedRange);
}
}
);
}
);
function getSelectionRange()
{
if (window.getSelection)
{
var sel = window.getSelection();
if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount)
{
return sel.getRangeAt( 0 );
}
else // Safari
{
var range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(sel.anchorNode, sel.anchorOffset);
range.setEnd(sel.focusNode, sel.focusOffset);
return range;
}
}
return null;
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