clicking text

fullyloaded

hi
is there away to click on any text on a page and have it add that text to a text box? so if i click on the word (phpbuilder) it will add it to a text box thanks in php

leatherback

hm..

You will probably have to write some fancy javascript for it. I do not think you will find it an easy thing to accomplish.

Dare I ask why you want to do this?

Weedpacket

Certainly not in PHP. PHP doesn't know what "clicks" are or "text boxes" and it only has a rough idea of what a "page" is.

eriksmoen

you can probably try something like this:

<input type='text' id='txtclickbox' name='txtclickbox' value='' size=25 />

<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='document.getElementById("txtclickbox").value="phpbuilder";'>phpbuilder</a>

hope that helps, or at least gives you a general idea... and like mentioned before, php doesn't do anything for it, but that little bit of code is javascript implemented into the html statement.

misterx

eriksmoen wrote:
you can probably try something like this:
<input type='text' id='txtclickbox' name='txtclickbox' value='' size=25 />

<a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='document.getElementById("txtclickbox").value="phpbuilder";'>phpbuilder</a>
hope that helps, or at least gives you a general idea... and like mentioned before, php doesn't do anything for it, but that little bit of code is javascript implemented into the html statement.

That code will replace text from a textbox with 'phpbuilder'.
If you would like to ADD it, you need a small modification:

<input type='text' id='txtclickbox' name='txtclickbox' value='' size=25 /> <a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='document.getElementById("txtclickbox").value +=" phpbuilder";'>phpbuilder</a>

🙂

leatherback

misterx wrote:
That code will replace text from a textbox with 'phpbuilder'.
If you would like to ADD it, you need a small modification:
<input type='text' id='txtclickbox' name='txtclickbox' value='' size=25 /> <a href='javascript:void(0)' onclick='document.getElementById("txtclickbox").value +=" phpbuilder";'>phpbuilder</a>
🙂

Please read the post; The guy was asking to have all text on a page clickable, to be added to a textbox on click. Unless he is willing to add the suggested scripts to every single word on the page, there really is not much use to them for him.

He would need a script which returns the position in the text clicked, split the text before and after the word, and than inserts that into the textbox. Mind you. Adding the text to the textbox is the easy part.

HalfaBee

You would have to make the text clickable,by wrapping in this

<div onclick="document.getElementById('addtext').innerHTML+=this.innerHTML">news </div>

The addtext div would show the results.
<div id="addtext"></div>

Ichiro

I pretty much agree with leatherback.

You could also just add a event handler to elements of the page which have any text that you might want to enable being copied to the box and then during that method, determine where the click was, if it was in the middle of a "word", the extent of the "word" and then add that word string to the box.

Another way to do it, require one to highlight the text one wants first and then on the click event handler simply finds what is highlighted, verify that it is indeed text and then add it to the box.

The latter is the way I would go.

Weedpacket

Goes without saying that you wouldn't want this shadowing any other reason someone might want to click something in the page.

If you're breaking conventions of the user interface you'd better have a really good reason.