Set anchor name with execCommand

Question

I know how to set an <a /> tag with the href attribute in a contenteditable like this:

execCommand("CreateLink", false, "#jumpmark");

which will result in

<a href="#jumpmark">selection</a>

However I cannot figure out how to set an anchor name instead of the href.
This is my desired result:

<a name="jumpmark">selection</a>

Can anyone help me?

Side notes: I am using jQuery and Rangy as libraries, however I would prefer a solution that works directly with execCommand.

Update: Here's a jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/fjYHr/ Select some text and click the button. All I want is that with the button click a link is inserted with a name attribute set instead of the href.

Answer 1

You could use something like the following, which is adapted from the pasteHtmlAtCaret() function from this answer of mine:

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/F8Zny/

Code:

function surroundSelectedText(element) {
    var sel, range;
    if (window.getSelection) {
        // IE9 and non-IE
        sel = window.getSelection();
        if (sel.getRangeAt && sel.rangeCount) {
            range = sel.getRangeAt(0);
            element.appendChild( document.createTextNode(range.toString()) );
            range.deleteContents();
            range.insertNode(element);

            // Preserve the selection
            range = range.cloneRange();
            range.setStartAfter(element);
            range.collapse(true);
            sel.removeAllRanges();
            sel.addRange(range);
        }
    } else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") {
        // IE < 9
        var selRange = document.selection.createRange();
        element.appendChild( document.createTextNode(selRange.text) );
        selRange.pasteHTML(element.outerHTML);
    }
}

If you must use document.execCommand() then you could use the InsertHTML command in non-IE browsers. However, IE does not support it.

document.execCommand("InsertHTML", false, '<a name="jumpmark">selection</a>');