textselection

I'am developing a web-application that allows to select parts of an html document and put some kind of annotation on it. To get hold of the selected text I use window.getSelection() which works pretty fine in IE9, FF, and Safari. However I run into trouble when using the same page on my IPad 2: If I just select a word by tapping it for a sec, window.getSelection() returns the proper selection. If I create a text range ( as discribed here http://blog.laptopmag.com/how-to-select-copy-and-paste-text-on-the-ipad ) always return "null". I've already examined the window, document and related event

How to select all text of a TEdit1 whenever user click on it or click to select some text of it How to select all text of a TEdit1 whenever user click on it Select Edit1 in the VCL editor and double-click on the OnClick event: procedure TForm13.Edit1Click(Sender: TObject); begin Edit1.SelectAll; end; You can also link this event to another control like a button. Select the button, choose and click on the V arrow to select an event you want to link. Now both Edit1.OnClick and Button1.OnClick link to the same event. It can be quite dangerous to do anything beyond the default behaviour of the

Simple question. How do you disable the text selection of DocumentViewer in WPF? This is the feature where an XPS document is displayed by the viewer and then text can be highlighted via mouse. The highlighted text can also be copied but I have already disabled this. I just don't know how to disable the highlighting. Thanks! We have solved this by overriding the ControlTemplate of the ScrollViewer embedded in the DocumentViewer control. Insert the Style below in "Window.Resources": <Style TargetType="{x:Type ScrollViewer}" x:Key="CustomScrollPresenter"> <Setter Property="Template"> <Setter

I was wondering if in chrome code we have some better way to detect when the user selects/highlights something in the current page than listening for keyup / mouseup and checking window.getSelection() . Any ideas? edit: Actually, what I'm trying to do is simply preventing the user from selecting any text at all in the contentDocument. Something that accomplishes this will be fine as well. (The idea behind getting the selection event was just to preventDefault() or otherwise getSelection().removeAllRanges() ) edit2: Please note that I need not just to prevent the highlighting from showing up,