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WebDocumentText Protocol Reference

Overview

WebDocumentText is an optional protocol for document view objects that display text. This protocol defines methods for accessing document content as strings, and methods for text selection. Classes that adopt this protocol should also adopt WebDocumentView and inherit from NSView.

Tasks

Getting Document Content

• – string
• – attributedString

Selecting and Deselecting Text

• – selectAll
• – deselectAll
• – selectedString
• – selectedAttributedString

Text Encoding

• – supportsTextEncoding

Instance Methods

attributedString

Returns the receiver’s content, the entire document, as an attributed string.

- (NSAttributedString *)attributedString

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – string

Declared In

WebDocument.h

deselectAll

Deselects the receiver’s current selection.

- (void)deselectAll

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – selectAll

Declared In

WebDocument.h

selectAll

Selects all the text in the receiver.

- (void)selectAll

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – deselectAll

Declared In

WebDocument.h

selectedAttributedString

Returns the receiver’s current selection as an attributed string.

- (NSAttributedString *)selectedAttributedString

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – selectedString

Declared In

WebDocument.h

selectedString

Returns the receiver’s current selection as a string.

- (NSString *)selectedString

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – selectedAttributedString

Declared In

WebDocument.h

string

Returns the receiver’s content, the entire document, as a string.

- (NSString *)string

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

See Also

• – attributedString

Declared In

WebDocument.h

supportsTextEncoding

Returns YES if the receiver supports text encoding, NO otherwise.

- (BOOL)supportsTextEncoding

Availability

• Available in Mac OS X v10.2 with Safari 1.0 and later.
• Available in Mac OS X v10.2.7 and later.

Declared In

WebDocument.h

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