selecting textfield text 1

[pazan]

Hello,

I need a way to select the text of a textfield but not the whole text. I know the method elem.select() but I need something like elem.select(start, length) where start would be the id of the first character to be selected and length, the length of the selection. I have searched in google and did'nt find any solution...If someone know it...please share it

 

[bclt]

hi,

var myText = new String(document.forms(name_of_form).name_of_textfield.value)

var mySelection = new String(myText.subString(start,end))

e.g: if the text is "Hello there" and put: start=2, end=6
the var mySelection will have "llo th"

 

[bclt]

sorry... will have "ello t

 

[adam0101]

Try this (The argument elem is a form element):

function selectRange(elem, start, length){
  var txt = elem.createTextRange();
  txt.moveStart("character", start);
  txt.moveEnd("character", (txt.text.length - length) *-1);
  txt.select();
}

Adam

recursion (n.) See recursion.

 

[pazan]

Thanks a lot adam0101 that's excatly what I needed