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Serializing Html: Placing Span Elements Around Selected Text While Preserving The Html Structure

I am trying to make a text highlighter where a teacher can select a range of text so that the stude… Read more Serializing Html: Placing Span Elements Around Selected Text While Preserving The Html Structure

Make Text Unselectable And Uncopyable (webkit, While Surrounded By Copyable Text)

The following snippet shows how to make text unselectable. Sadly, if you select text on either side… Read more Make Text Unselectable And Uncopyable (webkit, While Surrounded By Copyable Text)

Where Did The Text Selection Api Go?

Two years ago the HTML5 standard dropped the chapter 'Text Selection API' which contained a… Read more Where Did The Text Selection Api Go?

Populating Dropdown With Query Results In Php

The code should open all the rows of gamename column of games table and put 1700 rows into drop dow… Read more Populating Dropdown With Query Results In Php

Weird Behavour Wysiwyg?

I have a code to wrap elements around text it works fine until i try the following format in my edi… Read more Weird Behavour Wysiwyg?

How To Copy Markup - Not Just Plain Text - To The Clipboard Using Legacy Free Javascript

The complete content of a Mary had a little lamb , its fleece was white as snow. Everywhere t… Read more How To Copy Markup - Not Just Plain Text - To The Clipboard Using Legacy Free Javascript

How To Disable Text Selection On Double Click, But Not Otherwise?

There are tons of questions like this one and every answer I've seen is: use user-select: none.… Read more How To Disable Text Selection On Double Click, But Not Otherwise?

How To Preserve Text Selection When Opening A Jquery Dialog

Using jQuery's dialog I came across the following quirk (tested in FF3): User selects text In … Read more How To Preserve Text Selection When Opening A Jquery Dialog