gecko-dev/dom/base/nsISelection.idl
Ehsan Akhgari 1774c1cc7d Bug 1386411 - Part 2: Devirtualize and inline nsISelection::AsSelection(); r=bzbarsky
nsISelection is builtinclass, so this method doesn't need to be virtual.
2017-08-03 17:05:17 -04:00

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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
* License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
* file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
#include "nsISupports.idl"
/* THIS IS A PUBLIC INTERFACE */
interface nsIDOMNode;
interface nsIDOMRange;
interface nsINode;
%{C++
namespace mozilla {
namespace dom {
class Selection;
} // namespace dom
} // namespace mozilla
%}
/**
* Interface for manipulating and querying the current selected range
* of nodes within the document.
*
* @version 1.0
*/
[builtinclass, uuid(e0a4d4b3-f34e-44bd-b1f2-4e3bde9b6915)]
interface nsISelection : nsISupports
{
/**
* Returns the node in which the selection begins.
*/
readonly attribute nsIDOMNode anchorNode;
/**
* The offset within the (text) node where the selection begins.
*/
readonly attribute long anchorOffset;
/**
* Returns the node in which the selection ends.
*/
readonly attribute nsIDOMNode focusNode;
/**
* The offset within the (text) node where the selection ends.
*/
readonly attribute long focusOffset;
/**
* Indicates if the selection is collapsed or not.
*/
readonly attribute boolean isCollapsed;
[noscript,notxpcom,nostdcall] boolean collapsed();
/**
* Returns the number of ranges in the selection.
*/
readonly attribute long rangeCount;
/**
* Returns the range at the specified index.
*/
nsIDOMRange getRangeAt(in long index);
/**
* Collapses the selection to a single point, at the specified offset
* in the given DOM node. When the selection is collapsed, and the content
* is focused and editable, the caret will blink there.
* @param parentNode The given dom node where the selection will be set
* @param offset Where in given dom node to place the selection (the offset into the given node)
*/
void collapse(in nsIDOMNode parentNode, in long offset);
[noscript] void collapseNative(in nsINode parentNode, in long offset);
/**
* Extends the selection by moving the selection end to the specified node and offset,
* preserving the selection begin position. The new selection end result will always
* be from the anchorNode to the new focusNode, regardless of direction.
* @param parentNode The node where the selection will be extended to
* @param offset Where in node to place the offset in the new selection end
*/
void extend(in nsIDOMNode parentNode, in long offset);
[noscript] void extendNative(in nsINode parentNode, in long offset);
/**
* Collapses the whole selection to a single point at the start
* of the current selection (irrespective of direction). If content
* is focused and editable, the caret will blink there.
*/
void collapseToStart();
/**
* Collapses the whole selection to a single point at the end
* of the current selection (irrespective of direction). If content
* is focused and editable, the caret will blink there.
*/
void collapseToEnd();
/**
* Indicates whether the node is part of the selection. If partlyContained
* is set to PR_TRUE, the function returns true when some part of the node
* is part of the selection. If partlyContained is set to PR_FALSE, the
* function only returns true when the entire node is part of the selection.
*/
boolean containsNode(in nsIDOMNode node, in boolean partlyContained);
/**
* Adds all children of the specified node to the selection.
* @param parentNode the parent of the children to be added to the selection.
*/
void selectAllChildren(in nsIDOMNode parentNode);
/**
* Adds a range to the current selection.
*/
void addRange(in nsIDOMRange range);
/**
* Removes a range from the current selection.
*/
void removeRange(in nsIDOMRange range);
/**
* Removes all ranges from the current selection.
*/
void removeAllRanges();
/**
* Deletes this selection from document the nodes belong to.
*/
void deleteFromDocument();
/**
* Returns the whole selection into a plain text string.
*/
DOMString toString();
/**
* Modifies the selection. Note that the parameters are case-insensitive.
*
* @param alter can be one of { "move", "extend" }
* - "move" collapses the selection to the end of the selection and
* applies the movement direction/granularity to the collapsed
* selection.
* - "extend" leaves the start of the selection unchanged, and applies
* movement direction/granularity to the end of the selection.
* @param direction can be one of { "forward", "backward", "left", "right" }
* @param granularity can be one of { "character", "word",
* "line", "lineboundary" }
*
* @returns NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED if the granularity is "sentence",
* "sentenceboundary", "paragraph", "paragraphboundary", or
* "documentboundary". Returns NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG if alter, direction,
* or granularity has an unrecognized value.
*/
void modify(in DOMString alter, in DOMString direction,
in DOMString granularity);
%{C++
/**
* AsSelection() returns a pointer to Selection class.
*
* In order to avoid circular dependency issues, this method is defined
* in mozilla/dom/Selection.h. Consumers need to #include that header.
*/
inline mozilla::dom::Selection* AsSelection();
%}
};