Get the text selection of a Ext GWT HTML Editor text area

[jonas sabu]

Hi all,

I am trying to get the selected text within a HTML Editor to a String.
I have read that it can only be done using native javascript.
I have tried this but couldn't figure out how to get the selected text from the html editor.

What I have is (Underlined text is the selected text):
HTMLEditor editor = new HTMLEditor();
editor.setValue("Test phrase for selection Test);

What I want is:
String selection = editor.getSelection();
// selection should be = hrase fo

Anyone can help?

Thanks in advance

[jonas sabu]

no one ?

[vicache]

jonas sabu ,

First of all, text in HTML Editor is not normal text in any text area. It is a formatted text that has got div, b, i tags etc.
Maybe, you can access string between <u> and </u> tags. Get string from HTML Editor to Javascript variable, and parse it by u tags.