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Chapter 4 ✦ The Document and Body Objects (Chapter 18)
Cell A1
Cell B1
Cell A2
Cell B2
Section 1
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Section 2
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execCommand(“commandName”[, UIFlag] [,
param])
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Example
You can find many examples of the execCommand() method for the TextRange
object in Chapter 19 of the JavaScript Bible. But you can try out the documentspecific
commands in The Evaluator (Chapter 13 in the JavaScript Bible) if you like.
Try each of the following statements in the top text box and click the Evaluate button:
document.execCommand(“Refresh”)
document.execCommand(“SelectAll”)
document.execCommand(“Unselect”)
All methods return true in the Results box.
Because any way you can evaluate a statement in The Evaluator forces a body
selection to become deselected before the evaluation takes place, you can’t experiment
this way with the selection-oriented commands.
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document.execCommand()