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As you well know, double clicking on a word in a browser selects it, triple clicking selects the entire paragraph.
I'm tweaking a wiki, where signatures for anonymous users are created automatically and they look like:
--- // <ip.ad.dr.ess> //
The "---" generates a — , // is for italic text and generates <em></em>.
This is how it works now, as I tweaked it. Now I'm wondering about the usability.
My question is: how to generate the markup such that upon a double click on the ip address, the whole address and only the address will be selected?
The markup language doesn't matter, you may provide a solution in HTML, but one specific for wikis (dokuwiki) is preferable.
Thanks
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Thanks to everyone, but I've managed to do it by using a readonly text field set without borders and with the background color of the background of the website.
Double clicking works as expected, without relying on client-side scripting.
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You can't do that with HTML. Maybe with Javascript. Basically, you just detect double clicks in a certain area and then select the appropriate text.
EDIT:
Here's how to do it in W3C compliant browser (e.g. Firefox, it probably won't work in IE, which isn't a W3C compliant browser and uses different text selection model):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function select(elem) {
var sel = window.getSelection();
var range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
range.selectNode(elem);
sel.addRange(range);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>a simple paragraph, this is
<span onclick="select(this);">clickable area</span>
when this
<span ondblclick="select(this);">span tag is double-clicked</span>
then they will be selected
</p>
</body>
</html>
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