gallery-2011.05.04-20-03 caridy gallery-get-selection

src/gallery-get-selection/build.properties

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+# Selection Build Properties
+
+# As long as the 'builder' project is cloned to the default folder
+# next to the 'yui3-gallery' project folder, the 'builddir' property does not 
+# need to be changed
+#
+# If the 'builder' project is checked out to an alternate location, this
+# property should be updated to point to the checkout location.
+builddir=../../../builder/componentbuild
+
+# The name of the component. E.g. event, attribute, widget 
+component=gallery-get-selection
+
+# The list of files which should be concatenated to create the component
+# NOTE: For a css component. (e.g. cssfonts, cssgrids etc.) use component.cssfiles instead. 
+# component.jsfiles=get-selection.js, get-selectionHelperClass.js, get-selectionSubComponentClass.js
+component.jsfiles=get-selection.js
+
+# The list of modules this component. requires. Used to set up the Y.add module call for YUI 3.
+component.requires=node

src/gallery-get-selection/build.xml

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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!-- YUI 3 Gallery Component Build File -->
+<project name="Selection" default="local">
+    <description>Selection Build File</description>
+    <property file="build.properties" />
+    <import file="${builddir}/3.x/bootstrap.xml" description="Default Build Properties and Targets" />
+</project>

src/gallery-get-selection/js/get-selection.js

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+/**
+ * Getting a DOM fragment with the dom structure selected by the user.
+ * @module gallery-get-selection
+ * @requires node
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Return a DOM Fragment with the dom structure selected by the user to 
+ * facilitate the analysis of that fragment.
+ * E.g., Y.getSelection().all('p').size() will give you the number of paragraphs
+ * selected by the user.
+ * @class getSelection
+ * @static
+ */
+
+/*
+ * All the credit for Dav Glass (@davglass), since he has provided the whole chunk of code, 
+ * I just did the monkey work.
+ */
+Y.getSelection = function() {
+    var sel,
+        frag;
+
+    if (Y.config.win.getSelection) {
+        sel = Y.config.win.getSelection().getRangeAt(0);
+    } else if (Y.config.doc.selection) {
+        sel = Y.config.doc.selection.createRange();
+    }
+
+    if (sel.cloneContents) {
+        frag = sel.cloneContents();
+    } else if (sel.htmlText) {
+        frag = Y.Node.create(sel.htmlText);
+    }
+
+    return Y.Node.create('<div></div>').append(frag);
+};