range object

Hello everyone. Can you tell me where i can find information about range object (it's properties and methods). I have a working Javascript code in Firefox, but it's not working in Opera 10. Thanks very much

The standard itself documents all standard properties. If something is not working, we can't help you without an example: we need a full document or, preferably, a minimal test case.

W3C is good ). I've changed my code. Now it's working but i have some trouble (in opera) using this peace of code (this is a part of code which is doing some formatting stuff with selected text inside content editable div)

next_element = bound_element.nextSibling; //bound_element is span, next_element seems to be text node
new_range = document.createRange();
new_range.setStart(sel_range.startContainer,sel_range.startOffset);//sel_range - previous selection
new_range.setEnd(next_element,0);
new_range.surroundContents(newNode);
newNode.style.fontWeight = "bold";

After using this part of code all is working fine but opera doesn't respond for 5-10 seconds. Finally newNode appears. Where is the problem? Thanks!

Without more context about "bound_element", it's still not possible to help you any further. Where does it come from?

Wrapping just the selection with new_node works fine for me.

Also, the W3C Range api is horrible, for one specific reason: surroundContents. It throws BAD_BOUNDARYPOINTS_ERR for its main use case.
Did you look at the execCommand api in html5?

I know that opera doesn't support execCommand... Am i wrong?

"Also, the W3C Range api is horrible, for one specific reason: surroundContents. It throws BAD_BOUNDARYPOINTS_ERR for its main use case." that is why i have to use nextSibling. And after using nextSibling i have a problem discribed earlier.

Post edited Monday, 26. October 2009, 11:48:25

Originally posted by zim32:

I know that opera doesn't support execCommand... Am i wrong?

Opera does support it since Opera 9, although the clipboard functions aren't supported.

Originally posted by zim32:

And after using nextSibling i have a problem discribed earlier.

I haven't been able to reproduce that. Your code always fails with the exception, because your range starts in the startContainer and ends in the next_element. It should end at the end of startContainer if you want to avoid the exception. Without knowing how you get bound_element, we can't get any further.