Getting start and end of selected text from tinyMCE

Question

I have configured the tinyMCE editor with a custom context menu. When I right-click on any word in the editor, the chosen word gets highlighted. I am able to get the selected text with editor.selection.getContent().

1. How do I get the start and end points of the selected text within the entire text that is currently in the tinyMCE editor? I tried editor.selection.getStart() and getEnd(), but that has not yielded enough results.

My task is to take the start and end indices and get the previous word with it. I am currently using tinymce-3.5.10.

Answer 1

You will need to use

var range = editor.selection.getRng()

to get a range. You can get the start- and end-container using

range.startContainer
range.endContainer