I have a script to wrap html tags around the selection.
function wrap(tagName)
{
var selection;
var elements = [];
var ranges = [];
var rangeCount = 0;
if (window.getSelection)
{
selection = window.getSelection();
if (selection.rangeCount)
{
rangeCount = selection.rangeCount;
for (var i=0; i<rangeCount; i++)
{
ranges[i] = selection.getRangeAt(i).cloneRange();
elements[i] = document.createElement(tagName);
elements[i].appendChild(ranges[i].cloneContents());
ranges[i].deleteContents();
ranges[i].insertNode(elements[i]);
ranges[i].selectNode(elements[i]);
}
selection.removeAllRanges();
for (var i=0; i<ranges.length; i++)
{
selection.addRange(ranges[i]);
}
}
}
}
It works fine, but when I try to select the following text and wrap tags around the following code
<strong>W</strong>elcom<strong>e</strong>
The code changes to
<strong></strong><u><strong>W</strong>elcom<strong>e</strong></u><strong></strong>
instead of
<u><strong>W</strong>elcom<strong>e</strong></u>
I have inspected the code with firebug and it goes wrong at the function deleteContents()
. The function deleteContents() leaves two empty nodes <strong></strong>
so it doesn't delete the whole content. How does this happen?