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Get nearest word of the cursor position in textbox
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| <!DOCTYPE html> | |
| <html lang="en"> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Get Nearest word of cursor</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <input id="textArea" type="text"/> | |
| <br /> | |
| <input id="Submit" type="submit" value="Test" onclick="getPreviousWordOfCursor()"/> | |
| <script> | |
| function getPreviousWordOfCursor() { | |
| var textElement = document.getElementById('textArea') | |
| let caretPos = 0 | |
| if (document.selection) { | |
| textElement.focus() | |
| let Sel = document.selection.createRange() | |
| Sel.moveStart('character', -textElement.value.length) | |
| caretPos = Sel.text.length | |
| } else if (textElement.selectionStart || textElement.selectionStart == '0') { | |
| caretPos = textElement.selectionStart | |
| } | |
| let text = textElement.value | |
| let preText = text.substring(0, caretPos) | |
| let resultWord | |
| if (preText.indexOf(" ") > 0) { | |
| let words = preText.split(" ") | |
| resultWord = words[words.length - 1] | |
| } | |
| else { | |
| resultWord = preText | |
| } | |
| alert(resultWord) | |
| } | |
| </script> | |
| </body> | |
| </html> |
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