The New York Times does this. Pick any story at http://nytimes.com/ and double-click a word.
It turns out that it's kind of annoying, actually, because it is unexpected behavior. But that obviously varies case-by-case. By the way, you shouldn't connect every span to an event. Just connect the document and then look at event.target() to get the span. Chris Snyder http://chxor.chxo.com/ On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Per Cederberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Or using double-click instead of single click. Then the standard text > selection handling applies (not trivial cross-browser, but at least > doable). > > Cheers, > > /Per > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Jason Bunting > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am not thinking hard about this, so if I am way off, someone will correct > > me. :P > > > > Seems to me you would have to place just about every word (or, at least, > > those you care about) in a span tag and connect to the onmouseover event or > > onclick event of that span and then your handler could use scrapeText() to > > get the value out. > > > > connect(oneOfTheSpans, "onclick", function(eventArgs) { > > var textClickedOn = scrapeText(eventArgs.src()); > > }); > > > > I don't know, there is probably some much better way of doing this, but I > > thought I would at least respond. > > > > Jason Bunting > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: mochikit@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >> Behalf Of Nilu > >> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:11 PM > >> To: MochiKit > >> Subject: [mochikit] Get text under the mouse pointer via javascript > >> > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was wondering if it is at possible to get the word a user clicks on > >> with javascript. For example if I click on "word" (note that it isn't > >> inside a span, div or anchor element), the script would display > >> "word". > >> > >> Another way of doing this would be to get the coordinates of the mouse > >> and find the word which is at that point or the closest word to it. > >> > >> Is it possible at all? Please help > >> > >> cheers, > >> > >> Nilu > >> > >> > > >> > >> No virus found in this incoming message. > >> Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > >> Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.4.6/1540 - Release Date: 7/8/2008 > >> 6:33 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MochiKit" group. To post to this group, send email to mochikit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mochikit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
