Hi,
I posted this on the MooEditable mailing list, but there was no
response, so I thought I'd try my luck here. :)
Fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/wJhJQ/
I'm attempting to insert content into a MooEditable-ified textarea
dynamically, in response to a user's actions. (It's from a symbol dialog
that I wrote before the official one came around, with a few bespoke
features for the app I'm working on.) Everything works fantastically in
IE8 and Fx, but in IE7, the content is always inserted at the beginning
of the text
My working hypothesis is that IE7 isn't preserving the selection
information when the editor loses focus, but I'm having trouble
ascertaining whether or not that is, in fact, the case. In the 'command'
handler for my custom action, I've tried temporarily storing the range
and using setRange() before the content is inserted, but this doesn't
seem to work either: it looks like when you focus() the editor (as
getRange() does), IE pushes the cursor to the beginning.
In the fiddle, try putting your cursor at the end of the text, then
click the button. In Fx and IE8, despite losing focus, the content is
inserted at the right spot. In IE7, it's not.
Any thoughts on how I can work around this problem? The users are
getting antsy about it. Unfortunately, because the software is written
for schools, there's the inevitable problem of IT guys not wanting to
upgrade the browsers, so I can't just shrug it off. Happily, though, IE7
is our lowest supported browser: IE6 is out! :)
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Barry van Oudtshoorn
www.barryvan.com.au
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