Complex spellchk .JS function won't do what I want it to do :(

[hanseymoon]

Dear newsgroup:

I've got this long function, which works good overall to spell check
words from a dictionary and I am not in a position to replace it. Can
someone please see where or how it might be chopping up words like:
don't. It brings them back as: 't, chopping off the "don" before the
apostrophe. I've looked over the whole situation and ran many $string
tests....and it appears to be narrowed it down to this. I may be wrong
and not very good with Javascript so I am hoping someone can help me
and tell me if something is going on here )

Sincerest regards,
~Julie

BTW, this code seems to be ignoring special characters like #dont,
storing/interperting it as dont minus the #.... but I would rather it
not do that and take the string verbatum as is.
/*

function addEvent(obj, evType, fn){
if (obj.addEventListener){
obj.addEventListener(evType, fn, true);
return true;
} else if (obj.attachEvent){
var r = obj.attachEvent("on"+evType, fn);
return r;
} else {
return false;
}
}

function removeEvent(elm, evType, fn)
{
if (elm.removeEventListener){
elm.removeEventListener(evType, fn, true);
return true;
} else if (elm.detachEvent){
var r = elm.detachEvent("on"+evType, fn);
return r;
} else {
return false;
}
}

function isRightClick(e)
{
var rightclick;
// Tests if an event is a right-click - see
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/events_properties.html
if (!e) var e = window.event;
if (e.which) rightclick = (e.which == 3);
else if (e.button) rightclick = (e.button == 2);
return rightclick;
}

function getTarget(e)
{
var targ;
if (!e) var e = window.event;
if (e.target) targ = e.target;
else if (e.srcElement) targ = e.srcElement;
// Nasty mozilla specific code - IE returns a span but Moz sometimes
returns the text node
if (targ.nodeType == 3) {
targ = targ.parentNode;
}
return targ;
}

function getMousePosition(e)
{
var pos = {x: 0, y: 0};
if (!e) var e = window.event;
if (e.pageX || e.pageY)
{
pos.x = e.pageX;
pos.y = e.pageY;
}
else if (e.clientX || e.clientY)
{
pos.x = e.clientX + document.body.scrollLeft;
pos.y = e.clientY + document.body.scrollTop;
}
return pos;
}

globalspan = null;

function makeMenu(word, suggestions, pos) {
var words = new Array();
words = suggestions.split(', ');
menu = document.createElement('div');
menu.setAttribute('style', 'position: absolute; left: '+(pos.x -
10)+'px; top:'+(pos.y - 10)+'px;');
menu.className = 'spelingMenu';
// Make sure this item has at least one suggestion
if (words[0] == '') {
// Add "None available" notice
var none = document.createElement('div');
none.appendChild(document.createTextNode('None available'));
menu.appendChild(none);
}
for (var i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
var item = document.createElement('a');
item.href = 'javascript:void(0);';
var newword = words;
var text = document.createTextNode(newword);
item.word = newword;
item.appendChild(text);
menu.appendChild(item);
// Add event - at the moment this works on the textarea with
id="speling"
var textarea = document.getElementById('speling');
addEvent(item, 'click', function(e) {
var re = new RegExp('(\\W|^)'+word+'(\\W|$)', 'gim');;
textarea.value = textarea.value.replace(re,
'$1'+getTarget(e).word+'$2');
// Change the span to have the correct text as well
globalspan.firstChild.nodeValue = getTarget(e).word;
globalspan.className = '';
// Now close the menu

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].removeChild(spelingMenu);
spelingMenu = null;
});
}
// Add "cancel" button
var cancel = document.createElement('div');
cancel.className = 'cancel';
cancel.appendChild(document.createTextNode('cancel'));
addEvent(cancel, 'click', function(e) {

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].removeChild(spelingMenu);
spelingMenu = null;
});
menu.appendChild(cancel);
return menu;
}

var spelingMenu = null;

function setupSpeling() {
// Loop through span tags adding magic right menu to them
spans = document.getElementsByTagName('span');
for (var i = 0; i < spans.length; i++) {
var span = spans;
if (span.className == 'speling') {
// Attach magic events
span.suggestions = span.title;
span.title = 'Click to correct spelling';
addEvent(span, 'click', function(e) {
var pos = getMousePosition(e);
var target = getTarget(e);
var suggestions = target.suggestions;
var word = target.firstChild.nodeValue;
// alert('Word: '+word+' Suggestions: '+suggestions);
// alert('X: '+pos.x+' Y: '+pos.y+' Corrections:
'+targ.title);
// Destroy menu if it already exists
if (spelingMenu != null) {

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].removeChild(spelingMenu);
spelingMenu = null;
}
globalspan = this;
var menu = makeMenu(word, suggestions, pos);

document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(menu);
spelingMenu = menu;
});
}
}
}

addEvent(window, "load", setupSpeling);

 

[TheBagbournes]

Dear newsgroup:

I've got this long function, which works good overall to spell check
words from a dictionary and I am not in a position to replace it.

Remove it then. Firefox v2 has spellchecking on textboxes.

 

[dracognizer]

Remove it then. Firefox v2 has spellchecking on textboxes.

Yep, but IE6, IE7, FF1.5, Opera & Safari don't.

 

[hanseymoon]

I wish I could do that, but this has IE users, so this is definately
not an easy situation for me and giving me heart palipations!!

 

[jdlwright]

I wish I could do that, but this has IE users, so this is definately
not an easy situation for me and giving me heart palipations!!

I beleive I can help (although not with the heart palpitations) - and
this would actually be really useful to me too, can you tell me where
you got this function please?

Will try to figure out what's wrong while I wait for your reply.

Jim