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Re: How to get selected text in a WebView
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Re: How to get selected text in a WebView


  • Subject: Re: How to get selected text in a WebView
  • From: Keary Suska <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:45:02 -0600

On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:15 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:

> 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.

The first thing I would try is use NSAttributedString to convert the HTML.

HTH,

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Demystifying technology for your home or business"

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