TextUpdateEvent: text property

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The TextUpdateEvent.text read-only property contains the text that was inserted within the updated range of an EditContext's textupdate event.

Value

A String that contains the text that replaces the text contained between the updateRangeStart and updateRangeEnd indexes.

Examples

Using `textupdate` to display the inserted text and location

html

<div id="editor"></div>

const editorEl = document.getElementById("editor");
const editContext = new EditContext();
editorEl.editContext = editContext;
editContext.addEventListener("textupdate", (e) => {
 console.log(
 `The user inserted the text "${e.text}" at index ${e.updateRangeStart}.`,
 );
});