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NBrepresent

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

Suggestions on where to start for creating a new plugin?

Hi, I'd like to know which plugin would be the closest to work from, to basically create a plugin that will wrap highlighted text with a bit of code, like

<span class="foo"> highlighted </span>

when a toolbar button is clicked.

It seems like this is just similar to what clicking italic or bold on the toolbar does... On the same topic, is there already a plugin for wrapping highlighted text in custom strings?

NBrepresent

New member

Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 6

Re: Suggestions on where to start for creating a new plugin?

I found this function that looks like it would do what I am saying, but it's commented as being buggy:

/**
 *  Call this function to surround the existing HTML code in the selection with
 *  your tags.  FIXME: buggy! Don't use this 
 * @todo: when will it be deprecated ? Can it be removed already ?
 * @private (tagged private to not further promote use of this function)
 * @deprecated
 */
Xinha.prototype.surroundHTML = function(startTag, endTag)
{
  var html = this.getSelectedHTML();
  // the following also deletes the selection
  this.insertHTML(startTag + html + endTag);
};

So how do I accomplish the same without using this deprecated function?