[CLUG] Javascript

[Donncha O Caoimh]

You can sort of do what you want in a cross-browser fashion. Kind of.

Create a new bookmark in the links toolbar on your browser with the 
following code as the url:
javascript:Q=document.selection?document.selection.createRange().text:document.getSelection();void(window.open('http://blah/cgi-bin/foo?text='+escape(Q),'text 
selection bookmarklet', 
'scrollbars=no,width=480,height=300,left=100,top=150,status=yes'));

(that should be all on one line!)

Now, highlight some text on your page, hit the link you created in your 
toolbar and up will pop a new window with your selection in the URL.
Oh, all this ripped from the b2 "blog this" popup code by someone else, 
it should work but I haven't tested it.

Donncha.

Peter Flynn wrote:
> I know this is OT, but is there a Javascript expert out there?
> I need to know if it is possible to write a JS function which will
> send a user-highlighted text string from a Web page as the argument
> of a script URL. That is, the user double-clicks an arbitrary word
> (not a link) and a menu drops down out of nowhere and the user 
> clicks 'Send' and the JS invokes a new page to 
> http://blah/cgi-bin/foo?text=thestring
> 
> I have very conflicting reports on whether this is actually possible
> and I can't find a response from anyone authoritative.
> 

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