[froomzer]

Hello everyone! i need a little suggestion. I have a task to build so called "path" for the current cursor selection. is the only way - by making a loop over all tags using parentElement property?
So the task is to find the list of all OPENED tags until current cursor position
Is there any known tricks not to make a loop on all parent tags and manually analyze them?

[autos06]

Are you talking about the DOM or some sourcecode parser?

[froomzer]

Exactly!
I am making wysiwyg editor and want to create different context menus for different tags

[autos06]

froomzer - render their code into a hidden div and use DOM methods (parentNode, etc)

[froomzer]

autos06 so the only way is to make a loop through all parent tags using parentNode property and manually detect which tags are opened and closed, right?

[autos06]

froomzer - what do you mean open and closed?

[froomzer]

autos06 I need a list of all opened tags since body till current cursor position

[autos06]

are you trying to parse their source code? that's hard work

[froomzer]

Like if there is something like <table><tr><td><strong>lallala</strong> here will be the cursor... - So I want the script which will return me table->tr->td
And ignore strong tag (which is closed)
I did that kind of parsing using php already.. so algorythm is already in my head.. i just wonder maybe there are some helpful tricks in javascript for this...

[autos06]

froomzer - yeah, you're kind of reinventing the wheel, so i think you're going to have to do a lot of string parsing