How to Get Current Word in Angular DOCX Editor

27 Aug 20264 minutes to read

You can get the current word or paragraph content from the Angular DOCX Editor (Document Editor) component as plain text and SFDT (rich text).

Select and get the word in current cursor position

You can use selectCurrentWord API in selection module to select the current word at cursor position and use text API to get the selected content as plain text from Angular DOCX Editor component.

The following example code illustrates how to select and get the current word as plain text.

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import {
  ToolbarService,
  DocumentEditorContainerComponent,
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-documenteditor';
@Component({
      selector: 'app-root',
      // specifies the template string for the DocumentEditorContainer component
      template: `<ejs-documenteditorcontainer #documenteditor_default serviceUrl="https://document.syncfusion.com/web-services/docx-editor/api/documenteditor/" height="600px" style="display:block" [enableToolbar]=true (created)="onCreated()"> </ejs-documenteditorcontainer>`,
      providers: [ToolbarService],
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  @ViewChild('documenteditor_default')
  public container: DocumentEditorContainerComponent;
  ngOnInit(): void {}
  onCreated() {
    // To insert text in cursor position
    this.container.documentEditor.editor.insertText('Document editor');
    // Move selection to previous character
    this.container.documentEditor.selection.moveToPreviousCharacter();
    // To select the current word in document
    this.container.documentEditor.selection.selectCurrentWord();

    // To get the selected content as text
    let selectedContentText: string = this.container.documentEditor.selection.text;
    // To get the selected content as SFDT (rich text)
    let selectedContentSFDT: string = this.container.documentEditor.selection.sfdt;
  }
}

NOTE

The Web API hosted link https://document.syncfusion.com/web-services/docx-editor/api/documenteditor/ utilized in the DOCX Editor’s serviceUrl property is intended solely for demonstration and evaluation purposes. For production deployment, please host your own web service with your required server configurations. You can refer and reuse the GitHub Web Service example or Docker image for hosting your own web service and use for the serviceUrl property.

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Select and get the paragraph in current cursor position

You can use selectParagraph API in selection module to select the current paragraph at cursor position and use the text API or sfdt API to get the selected content as plain text or SFDT from Angular DOCX Editor component.

The following example code illustrates how to select and get the current paragraph as SFDT.

import { Component, OnInit, ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import {
  ToolbarService,
  DocumentEditorContainerComponent,
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-documenteditor';
@Component({
      selector: 'app-root',
      // specifies the template string for the DocumentEditorContainer component
      template: `<ejs-documenteditorcontainer #documenteditor_default serviceUrl="https://document.syncfusion.com/web-services/docx-editor/api/documenteditor/" height="600px" style="display:block" [enableToolbar]=true (created)="onCreated()"> </ejs-documenteditorcontainer>`,
      providers: [ToolbarService],
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  @ViewChild('documenteditor_default')
  public container: DocumentEditorContainerComponent;
  ngOnInit(): void {}
  onCreated() {
    // To insert text in cursor position
    this.container.documentEditor.editor.insertText('Document editor');
    // To select the current paragraph in document
    this.container.documentEditor.selection.selectParagraph();

    // To get the selected content as text
    let selectedContentText: string = this.container.documentEditor.selection.text;
    // To get the selected content as SFDT (rich text)
    let selectedContentSFDT: string = this.container.documentEditor.selection.sfdt;
  }
}