TextUpdateEvent: text property
Limited availability
This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.
Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.
The TextUpdateEvent.text
read-only property contains the text that was inserted within the updated range of a EditContext
's textupdate
event.
Value
A String
that contains the text that replaces the text contained between the updateRangeStart
and updateRangeEnd
indexes.
Examples
Using textupdate
to display the inserted text and location
html
<div id="editor"></div>
js
const editorEl = document.getElementById("editor");
const editContext = new EditContext();
editorEl.editContext = editContext;
editContext.addEventListener("textupdate", (e) => {
console.log(
`The user inserted the text "${e.text}" at index ${e.updateRangeStart}.`,
);
});
Specifications
Specification |
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EditContext API # dom-textupdateevent-text |
Browser compatibility
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text |
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- Full support
- Full support
- No support
- No support
- Experimental. Expect behavior to change in the future.
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