How to get selected text in a WebView
How to get selected text in a WebView
- Subject: How to get selected text in a WebView
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 14:15:09 +0700
I have a Webview, and I want to do something with the selected text.
I tried:
DOMRange *dr = [ webView selectedDOMRange ];
NSString *m = [ dr markupString ];
this contains the selected characters, but buried in lots of markup language. But I just want the characters.
NSString *s= [ dr stringRepresentation ];
just returns "Undefined".
I could do [webView copy:nil ]; and then get the string from the general pasteboard, but I rather do not like to mess up the pasteboard - the user might have put something important there.
So I tried:
NSPasteboard *pasteboard = [ NSPasteboard pasteboardWithUniqueName ];
NSArray *types = [ NSArray arrayWithObject: NSPasteboardTypeString ];
[ webView writeSelectionWithPasteboardTypes: types toPasteboard: pasteboard ];
NSString *po = [ pasteboard stringForType: NSPasteboardTypeString ];
NSLog(@"%s selectedString \"%@\"",__FUNCTION__,po);
but the result is: selectedString "(null)"
Adding [ pasteboard declareTypes: types owner: nil ] does not make any changes.
So what am I doing wrong?
How to get the selection as string form a WebView?
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
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