Specifications

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Description
Gets the position of a specific node in the DOM tree, which is expressed as character offsets into
the document’s source code. It is 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 that
dreamweaver.getDocumentDOM() returns.
Returns
An array that contains 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]);
dom.offsetsToNode()
Availability
Dreamweaver 3
Description
Gets the object in the DOM tree that completely contains the range of characters between the
specified beginning and end points. It is valid for any document on a local drive.
Arguments
offsetBegin, offsetEnd
The arguments are the beginning and end points, respectively, of a range of characters, expressed
as character offsets from the beginning of the document’s source code.
Returns
The tag, text, or comment object that completely contains the specified range of characters.
Example
The following code displays an alert if the selection is an image:
var offsets = dom.getSelection();
var theSelection = dreamweaver.offsetsToNode(offsets[0], ¬
offsets[1]);
if (theSelection.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE && ¬
theSelection.tagName == 'IMG'){
alert('The current selection is an image.');
}