The Dreamweaver JavaScript API > Selection functions > dom.nodeToOffsets()

 

dom.nodeToOffsets()

Availability

Dreamweaver 3.0

Description

Gets the position of a specific node in the DOM tree, expressed as character offsets into the document's HTML source code. Valid for any document on a local drive.

Arguments

node

node must be a tag, comment, or range of text that is a node in the tree returned by dreamweaver.getDocumentDOM().

Returns

An array containing two integers. The first integer is the character offset of the beginning of the tag, text, or comment; the second integer is the character offset of the end of the node, from the beginning of the HTML document.

Enabler

None.

Example

The following code selects the first image object in the current document:

var theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
var theImg = theDOM.images[0];
var offsets = theDom.nodeToOffsets(theImg);
theDom.setSelection(offsets[0], offsets[1]);