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I need some help about JavaScript on iPhone UIWebView;
I have HTML like below:
<html>
<head>
<title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<span>this example for selection <b>from</b> UIWebView</span>
</body>
</html>
I want to make a selection, and add <span> tag with color to the selected text in HTML to write a note just like an e-book reader.
This is my JavaScript code to get the selected text:
NSString *SelectedString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"function getSelText()"
"{"
"var txt = '';"
" if (window.getSelection)"
"{"
"txt = window.getSelection();"
" }"
"else if (document.getSelection)"
"{"
"txt = document.getSelection();"
"}"
"else if (document.selection)"
"{"
"txt = document.selection.createRange().text;"
"}"
"else return;"
"alert(txt);"
"}getSelText();"];
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:SelectedString];
This works good, and returns me the selected text.
Also this JS code for adding a new tag:
NSString *AddSpanTag = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"function selHTML() {"
"if (window.ActiveXObject) {"
"var c = document.selection.createRange();"
"return c.htmlText;"
"}"
"var nNd = document.createElement(\"span\");"
"var divIdName = \'myelementid\';"
"var ColorAttr = \"background-color: #ffffcc\";"
"nNd.setAttribute(\'id\',divIdName);"
"nNd.setAttribute(\'style\',ColorAttr);"
"var w = getSelection().getRangeAt(0);"
"w.surroundContents(nNd);"
"return nNd.innerHTML;"
"}selHTML();"];
[webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:AddSpanTag];
My problem is so:
if I select "example" (look at the HTML text) text from WebView, it works, because it doesn't contain any tag.
But if I select "selection from" (look at the HTML text) text from WebView, it's not working, because it starts the tag of <b>, and </b> is out of my selection, then I can't add a new tag between <b> and </b>.
How can I solve this problem?
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Since this is a UIWebView, this is Mobile Safari and you can lose a lot of those branches for obtaining the selection. I would suggest using document.execCommand() with the "HiliteColor" command, which is built into the browser and works on the whole selection even when it crosses element boundaries:
var sel = window.getSelection();
if (!sel.isCollapsed) {
var selRange = sel.getRangeAt(0);
document.designMode = "on";
sel.removeAllRanges();
sel.addRange(selRange);
document.execCommand("HiliteColor", false, "#ffffcc");
sel.removeAllRanges();
document.designMode = "off";
}
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