JavaScript Examples Bible - UserWorks Technologies

Chapter 1 ✦ Generic HTML Element Objects (Chapter 15)
Example
See Listing 15-30 earlier in this chapter for an example of using the onContextMenu
event handler with a custom context menu.
onCopy
onCut
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Example
Listing 15-36 shows both the onBeforeCut and onCut event handlers in action
(as well as onBeforePaste and onPaste). Notice how the handleCut() function
not only stuffs the selected word into the clipboardData object, but it also erases
the selected text from the table cell element from where it came. If you replace the
onBeforeCut and onCut event handlers with onBeforeCopy and onCopy (and
change handleCut() to not eliminate the inner text of the event source element),
the operation works with copy and paste instead of cut and paste. I demonstrate
this later in the chapter in Listing 15-45.
Listing 15-36: Cutting and Pasting under Script Control
onBeforeCut and onCut Event Handlers
TD {text-align:center}
TH {text-decoration:underline}
.blanks {text-decoration:underline}
function selectWhole() {
var obj = window.event.srcElement
var range = document.body.createTextRange()
range.moveToElementText(obj)
range.select()
event.returnValue = false
}
function handleCut() {
var rng = document.selection.createRange()
clipboardData.setData(“Text”,rng.text)
var elem = event.srcElement
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