Select Content Button

by Base July 18th 2011, 5:46 pm

Select Content Button

Hello Forumotion members,

In this tutorial, you will discover how to put a 'Select Content' button for every code box as seen on this forum. This tutorial is compatible for all forum versions.

An example of the 'Select Content' button as seen on this forum:
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Clicking it will automatically select the contents of the code box:
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Step 1:
Navigate to...
Administration Panel → Modules Tab → Javascript codes management → Create a new javascript

Step 2:
Call it whatever you like and set its placement to all pages.

Step 3:
Once you have done that, you will need to add the following code into 'Javascript Code' field :

Code:: function selectCode(e) { var doc = document , text = $(e).closest("dl").find(".cont_code,code").get(0) , range, selection ; if (doc.body.createTextRange) { range = document.body.createTextRange(); range.moveToElementText(text); range.select(); } else if (window.getSelection) { selection = window.getSelection(); range = document.createRange(); range.selectNodeContents(text); selection.removeAllRanges(); selection.addRange(range); } }; $(function(){$("dl.codebox:not(.spoiler,.hidecode) > dd.code, dl.codebox:not(.spoiler,.hidecode) > dd > code").closest("dl").find('dt').append('<span onClick="selectCode(this)" class="selectCode">Select Content</span>')});

Step 4 :
Go to Administration Panel > Display > Colors > CSS stylesheet

Add the following to your stylesheet to style the select content button and submit :