First we need to capture the cursor position within the Div it self.
$scope.editorSelection;
$scope.SetupEditor = function () {
var editable = document.getElementById('editor'),
selection, range;
var captureSelection = function (e) {
// Don't capture selection outside editable region
var isOrContainsAnchor = false,
isOrContainsFocus = false,
sel = window.getSelection(),
parentAnchor = sel.anchorNode,
parentFocus = sel.focusNode;
while (parentAnchor && parentAnchor != document.documentElement) {
if (parentAnchor == editable) {
isOrContainsAnchor = true;
}
parentAnchor = parentAnchor.parentNode;
}
while (parentFocus && parentFocus != document.documentElement) {
if (parentFocus == editable) {
isOrContainsFocus = true;
}
parentFocus = parentFocus.parentNode;
}
if (!isOrContainsAnchor || !isOrContainsFocus) {
return;
}
selection = window.getSelection();
// Get range (standards)
if (selection.getRangeAt !== undefined) {
range = selection.getRangeAt(0);
// Get range (Safari 2)
} else if (
document.createRange &&
selection.anchorNode &&
selection.anchorOffset &&
selection.focusNode &&
selection.focusOffset
) {
range = document.createRange();
range.setStart(selection.anchorNode, selection.anchorOffset);
range.setEnd(selection.focusNode, selection.focusOffset);
} else {
// Failure here, not handled by the rest of the script.
// Probably IE or some older browser
}
$scope.editorSelection = range;
};
editable.onkeyup = captureSelection;
}
From here, we need to be able to insert HTML at the selection when we choose to.
function insertHtmlAfterSelection(html) {
var range, expandedSelRange, node;
if ($scope.editorSelection) {
range = $scope.editorSelection;
expandedSelRange = range.cloneRange();
range.collapse(false);
var el = document.createElement("div");
el.innerHTML = html;
var frag = document.createDocumentFragment(), node, lastNode;
while ((node = el.firstChild)) {
lastNode = frag.appendChild(node);
}
range.insertNode(frag);
}
}
That will be it.