How can I filter my selector by what the user has selected???
I'm trying to find specific elements inside what the user has highlighted.
$('.item', document.selection) ?
$('.item', editor.getSelection().getRanges()[0]) ?
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Teja Kantamneni
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by selector you mean select dropdown? – chchrist Aug 13 '10 at 20:20
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no i mean literally what the user has highlighted on the page. – BadRaabutation Aug 13 '10 at 20:24
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For instance, if I highlighted your comment "by selector you mean select dropdown?" and wanted to look for bold or paragraph elements inside that highlighted selection, how would i do that? – BadRaabutation Aug 13 '10 at 20:28
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This sounds more like a web-browser plugin. Firefox offers this sort of functionality with their FireBug plugin. – Brandon Boone Aug 13 '10 at 20:43
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Insert selected text on the page into textarea (jQuery)
This might help. Maybe push it into a hidden element and then have jQuery reference that
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Check this out, it will give you the text a user has selected (highlighted) on a page. However, this will not get the DOM structure, but merely the text.
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