The following command converts the selected text to all lowercase characters. The command is very simple; it does not display a dialog box, so the commandButtons() function is not defined.
<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Make Lower Case</TITLE><SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
function canAcceptCommand(){
// Get the DOM of the current document
var theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
// Get the offsets of the selection
var theSel = theDOM.getSelection();
// Get the selected node
var theSelNode = theDOM.getSelectedNode();
// Get the children of the selected node
var theChildren = theSelNode.childNodes;
// If the selection is not an insertion point, and
// either the selection or its first child is a
// text node, return TRUE.
return (theSel[0] != theSel[1] && (theSelNode.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE || theChildren[0].nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE));
}
function changeToLowerCase() {
// Get the DOM again
var theDOM = dw.getDocumentDOM();
// Get the offsets of the selection
var theSel = theDOM.getSelection();
// Get the outerHTML of the HTML tag (the
// entire contents of the document)
var theDocEl = theDOM.documentElement;
var theWholeDoc = theDocEl.outerHTML;
// Extract the selection
var selText = theWholeDoc.substring(theSel[0],theSel[1]);
// Re-insert the modified selection into the document
theDocEl.outerHTML = theWholeDoc.substring(0,theSel[0]) + selText.toLowerCase() +
theWholeDoc.substring(theSel[1]);
// Set the selection back to where it was when you
// started
theDOM.setSelection(theSel[0],theSel[1]);
}
</SCRIPT></HEAD>
<BODY onLoad="changeToLowerCase()">
<!-- The function that does all the work in this command
is called from the onLoad handler on the BODY tag. There is
no form in the BODY, so no dialog box appears. -->
</BODY></HTML>