Re: Safari — get selected text in text area
Re: Safari — get selected text in text area
- Subject: Re: Safari — get selected text in text area
- From: Jeremy K Sellors <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:18:14 -0700
Ok, I see from a previous post:
tell application "Safari"
activate
--
set clipText to (do JavaScript "getSelection()" in document 1) as string
tell application "System Events"
to keystroke "c"
using {
command down}
delay 0.5
set clipText to (
the clipboard)
as text
end tell
Posted by D. Mahaffy under subject
Re: Safari "do javascript" busted?
This will
work in this case. Thanks.
On Apr 30, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Jeremy K Sellors wrote:
Hi'
How do you set a variable to the selected text in a web content management system (CMS) page text entry area.
--<a href="http://www.canfor.com/">here…</a>
set Link to the clipboard
tell application "Safari"
tell front document
set LinkedText to get the selected
end tell
end tell
set WebLink to "<a href=\"" & Link & "\">" & LinkedText & "</a>"
set the clipboard to WebLink
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