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If you want to experiment by finding other chunks of text and looking at both the
text and htmlText properties, first restore the text range to encompass the entire
body with the following statement:
a.expand(“textEdit”)
You can read about the expand() method later in this chapter. In other tests, use
findText() to set the range to “for all” and just “for al.” Then, see how the
htmlText property exposes the EM element’s tags.
text
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Example
See Listing 19-11 later in this chapter for the findText() method to see the
text property used to perform the replace action of a search-and-replace function.
Methods
collapse([startBoolean])
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Example
See Listings 19-11 (in this chapter) and 15-14 (in Chapter 1 of this book) to see
the collapse() method at work.
compareEndPoints(“type”, rangeRef)
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Example
The page rendered by Listing 19-10 lets you experiment with text range comparisons.
The bottom paragraph contains a SPAN element that has a TextRange
object assigned to its text after the page loads (in the init() function). That fixed
range becomes a solid reference point for you to use while you select text in the
TextRange.compareEndPoints()