Jquery get and set css attribute of some part of html string

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I'm writing an html editor control. I want to change css attributes of selected text of the content. I get the selectedcontent by window.getSelection(); What is the best way to make bold selected text, and to understand selected text is bold then to make it normal. Replace with required tags doesn't work. Since similar texts can be in content. It looks quite complicated to me. I'm looking for the best way to do it.

Posted 13-Oct-15 0:24am

kubibay

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Krunal Rohit 13-Oct-15 6:55am

did u try ::selection ?

-KR

kubibay 13-Oct-15 7:01am

I don't think it is what i need.
Let's say; I need to make bold/unbold selected text from a content by a button.
The problem is if there are occurences of selected text how do I understand which one is selected?

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kubibay · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-13T01:43:00

Solution 1

JavaScript

<pre lang="cs">$(document).on('selectionchange', function(e) {
            document.execCommand('bold');
    });

is the solution.

http://jsfiddle.net/XCb95/132/[^]

Posted 13-Oct-15 1:43am

kubibay