/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */ /* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */ #include "nsISupports.idl" /* THIS IS A PUBLIC INTERFACE */ interface nsIDOMNode; interface nsIDOMRange; interface nsINode; %{C++ namespace mozilla { namespace dom { class Selection; } // namespace dom } // namespace mozilla %} /** * Interface for manipulating and querying the current selected range * of nodes within the document. * * @version 1.0 */ [builtinclass, uuid(e0a4d4b3-f34e-44bd-b1f2-4e3bde9b6915)] interface nsISelection : nsISupports { /** * Returns the node in which the selection begins. */ readonly attribute nsIDOMNode anchorNode; /** * The offset within the (text) node where the selection begins. */ readonly attribute long anchorOffset; /** * Returns the node in which the selection ends. */ readonly attribute nsIDOMNode focusNode; /** * The offset within the (text) node where the selection ends. */ readonly attribute long focusOffset; /** * Indicates if the selection is collapsed or not. */ readonly attribute boolean isCollapsed; [noscript,notxpcom,nostdcall] boolean collapsed(); /** * Returns the number of ranges in the selection. */ readonly attribute long rangeCount; /** * Returns the range at the specified index. */ nsIDOMRange getRangeAt(in long index); /** * Collapses the selection to a single point, at the specified offset * in the given DOM node. When the selection is collapsed, and the content * is focused and editable, the caret will blink there. * @param parentNode The given dom node where the selection will be set * @param offset Where in given dom node to place the selection (the offset into the given node) */ void collapse(in nsIDOMNode parentNode, in long offset); [noscript] void collapseNative(in nsINode parentNode, in long offset); /** * Extends the selection by moving the selection end to the specified node and offset, * preserving the selection begin position. The new selection end result will always * be from the anchorNode to the new focusNode, regardless of direction. * @param parentNode The node where the selection will be extended to * @param offset Where in node to place the offset in the new selection end */ void extend(in nsIDOMNode parentNode, in long offset); [noscript] void extendNative(in nsINode parentNode, in long offset); /** * Collapses the whole selection to a single point at the start * of the current selection (irrespective of direction). If content * is focused and editable, the caret will blink there. */ void collapseToStart(); /** * Collapses the whole selection to a single point at the end * of the current selection (irrespective of direction). If content * is focused and editable, the caret will blink there. */ void collapseToEnd(); /** * Indicates whether the node is part of the selection. If partlyContained * is set to PR_TRUE, the function returns true when some part of the node * is part of the selection. If partlyContained is set to PR_FALSE, the * function only returns true when the entire node is part of the selection. */ boolean containsNode(in nsIDOMNode node, in boolean partlyContained); /** * Adds all children of the specified node to the selection. * @param parentNode the parent of the children to be added to the selection. */ void selectAllChildren(in nsIDOMNode parentNode); /** * Adds a range to the current selection. */ void addRange(in nsIDOMRange range); /** * Removes a range from the current selection. */ void removeRange(in nsIDOMRange range); /** * Removes all ranges from the current selection. */ void removeAllRanges(); /** * Deletes this selection from document the nodes belong to. */ void deleteFromDocument(); /** * Returns the whole selection into a plain text string. */ DOMString toString(); /** * Modifies the selection. Note that the parameters are case-insensitive. * * @param alter can be one of { "move", "extend" } * - "move" collapses the selection to the end of the selection and * applies the movement direction/granularity to the collapsed * selection. * - "extend" leaves the start of the selection unchanged, and applies * movement direction/granularity to the end of the selection. * @param direction can be one of { "forward", "backward", "left", "right" } * @param granularity can be one of { "character", "word", * "line", "lineboundary" } * * @returns NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if the granularity is "sentence", * "sentenceboundary", "paragraph", "paragraphboundary", or * "documentboundary". Returns NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if alter, direction, * or granularity has an unrecognized value. */ void modify(in DOMString alter, in DOMString direction, in DOMString granularity); %{C++ /** * AsSelection() returns a pointer to Selection class if the instance is * derived from it. Otherwise, nullptr but it should never happen * since Selection is the only class implementing nsISelection. */ virtual mozilla::dom::Selection* AsSelection() = 0; %} };