Thanks for the response Richard. I'll check out these links. :o)
On Aug 19, 7:59 am, "Richard D. Worth" <rdwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > See > > http://code.google.com/p/ierange/ > > For a bit of history (though a different author), you can > readhttp://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemirror/story.html > > the last 6 paragraphs under 'Take one: Only indentation'. > > - Richard > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Chris Jordan <chris.s.jor...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > Is there a particularly jQuery-ish way to determine if there is text > > selected on the screen? I've googled around for some code on this > > subject, but I want to be sure that whatever I use is cross-browser > > compatible. It's been my experience that if I let jQuery do the heavy > > lifting for me, that my solutions are always compatible across the > > major browsers. > > > What I'm specifically needing to do is see if the length of what the > > user has selected in a text field is the same as the length of all of > > the text in that field. Make sense? In other words, if I've got a text > > box with fifteen characters in it, I want to know the length of their > > selection (zero to fifteen). > > > Thanks!
