Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

moveEnd( ), moveStart( ) — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

moveEnd(unit[, count])

moveStart(unit[, count])

Moves only the end or start point (respectively) of the current text range by one or more units. An optional parameter lets you specify both the number of units and direction. To shift the start point of a text range toward the beginning of the original range, be sure to specify a negative value. When moving the end point to the right by word units, be aware that a word ends with a white-space character (including a period). Therefore, if a findText( ) method sets the range to a found string that does not end in a space, the first moveEnd("word") method moves the ending point to the spot past the space after the found string rather than to the following word.

Returned Value

Integer of the number of units moved.

Parameters

unit

A case-insensitive string value of the desired unit: character | word | sentence | textedit. The textedit value moves the insertion pointer to the start or end of the entire original range.

count

An optional integer of the number of units to move the insertion pointer. Positive values move the pointer forward; negative values move the pointer backward. Default value is 1.