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1.0
66
Introduced
Gecko 2.0
Obsolete
Gecko 8.0
Inherits from:
nsISupports
Last changed in Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4 / Thunderbird 3.3 / SeaMonkey 2.1)In Gecko 8.0 this Interface was merged into the nsISelection interface.
Method overview
void modify(in DOMString alter, in DOMString direction, in DOMString granularity); |
Methods
modify()
Modifies the selection. Note that the parameters are case-insensitive.
void modify( in DOMString alter, in DOMString direction, in DOMString granularity );
Parameters
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.
direction- Can be one of { "forward", "backward", "left", "right" }
granularity- Can be one of { "character", "word", "line", "lineboundary" }