"Mr. Murad Jamal" <MrMuradJa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:84C97777-BD42-4CF8-B8E2-81DDFE81EBDB@microsoft.com...
> hi guys,
> I have a textbox & a button in an .aspx page, when I hit the button i want
> a
> selected text
> to be copied to the clipboard AND paste it into the last cursor position
> on
> the textbox BOTH AT ONCE, that means, copying & pasting the text must
> happen
> together on the Button_Click event handler!
>
> when we use javascript to store the selected text into a variable, we must
> use this code snippet:
>
> var selectedHtml=(document.selection.createRange()).htmlText;
> if(selectedHtml!= "")
> document.getElementById("TextBox3").focus();
> sel = document.selection.createRange();
> sel.text = selectedHtml;
>
> now, the exact question becomes: how to copy the sel variable above [which
> holdes the selected html text] to the clipboard and paste it into the LAST
> CURSOR POSITION in the textbox on the Button-Click event handler!!
>
> Thank you so much in advance !!

"ValliM" wrote:

> Hi Murad Jamal,
>
> Here is the script codings which maintains the cursor position in the global
> variable.The cursor position can be obtained by the calling  function
> GetCursorPos() in the click event of the TextBox.
>
> globalCursorPos:    It is used to maintain the current cursor position.
>
> lastCursorPos:     It is used to maintain the last cursor position.
>
> Script:
> var lastCursorPos;
>
> var globalCursorPos=0;
>
> function select1()
>
> {
>
>
> var selectedHtml=(document.selection.createRange()).htmlText;
>
> if(selectedHtml!= "")
>
> {
>
> window.clipboardData.setData("Text",selectedHtml);
>
> var clipboardData= window.clipboardData.getData("Text");
>
> var sourceText=document.getElementById("Text1").value;
>
> var
> newText=sourceText.substring(0,lastCursorPos)+clipboardData+sourceText.substring(lastCursorPos);
>
> document.getElementById("Text1").innerText=" ";
>
> document.getElementById("Text1").innerText=newText;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> function GetCursorPostion()
>
> {
>
> lastCursorPos=globalCursorPos;
>
> globalCursorPos = getCursorPosition();
>
> }
>
> function getCursorPosition()
>
> {
>
> var obj = document.activeElement;
>
> var cur = document.selection.createRange();
>
> var pos = 0;
>
> if (obj && cur)
>
> {
>
> var tr = obj.createTextRange();
>
> if (tr)
>
> {
>
> while (cur.compareEndPoints("StartToStart", tr) > 0)
>
> {
>
> tr.moveStart("character", 1);
>
> pos++;
>
> }
>
> return pos;
>
> }
>
> }
>
> return -1;
>
> }
>
> HTML
>
> <input id="Text1" style="position: relative; width: 672px; height: 90px;"
> type="text" value="We are a leading provider of software components and
> tools for the Microsoft .NET platform. - www.syncfusion.com"
> onclick="GetCursorPostion();"/></div>
>
> <input id="Button1" style="position: relative" type="button" value="button"
> onclick="select1();" />
>
> Let me know if u have any doubts.
>
> Regards,
>
> Valli
>
>
>
> [www.syncfusion.com
> http://www.syncfusion.com/faq/aspnet/default.aspx]
>
> "Mr. Murad Jamal" <MrMuradJa***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:84C97777-BD42-4CF8-B8E2-81DDFE81EBDB@microsoft.com...
> > hi guys,
> > I have a textbox & a button in an .aspx page, when I hit the button i want
> > a
> > selected text
> > to be copied to the clipboard AND paste it into the last cursor position
> > on
> > the textbox BOTH AT ONCE, that means, copying & pasting the text must
> > happen
> > together on the Button_Click event handler!
> >
> > when we use javascript to store the selected text into a variable, we must
> > use this code snippet:
> >
> > var selectedHtml=(document.selection.createRange()).htmlText;
> > if(selectedHtml!= "")
> > document.getElementById("TextBox3").focus();
> > sel = document.selection.createRange();
> > sel.text = selectedHtml;
> >
> > now, the exact question becomes: how to copy the sel variable above [which
> > holdes the selected html text] to the clipboard and paste it into the LAST
> > CURSOR POSITION in the textbox on the Button-Click event handler!!
> >
> > Thank you so much in advance !!
>
>
>