Writing a text editor : Unbold the bold text

[netpumber]

Hello im trying to make a text editor for a site and i have some problems with javascript.

 

I started here as simple as can be, without any textarea and so.

At first im just trying to modify a <p>.

Here you can see the code.

 

http://jsfiddle.net/9e753/

 

As you can try i can make the text bold but i cannot undo it.

 

Also i want to ask you haw can i achieve to make this change:

(lets say we have a bolded text)

 

text

 

and we want to unbold only two or one letter eg:

 

text

text

 

and so on...

 

Any hint is welcomed.

Thanks in advance.

[Jessica]

You'd have to insert spans around the letters you want to change.

 

You should consider using an existing tool like TinyMCE. No need to reinvent the wheel when it's a really complicated wheel and every road has different rules.

[netpumber]

Thanks for your answer.

 

Ok lets say i add spans. How i remove them with javascript ?

 

I will try the TinyMCE also , but i wanna find the way that these editors works.

[Jessica]

The same way you add them, but in reverse. 

 

I'd do it in jQuery if I were doing it. 

[netpumber]

But im adding them with surroundContents() and there is no removeSouroundContents() function . What you mean with the same way?