Select tag contents

BobC · 02-23-2020, 01:52 PM

I've searched for a way to do this but with no success. Am I missing something ?

What I want to do is to be able to go to the start of a HTML tag and then easily highlight all it's contents up to the matching closing tag. So for example everything between

Code:

<div class= "poem"> 
and it's matching  
</div>

.

I know how to toggle between the start and end using <CTL + { or } but I don't think that helps when to two are far apart and can't be seen on the same screen.

The above can be useful to then "mark" the selected section so that I could for instance apply a S & R just to the marked text.

BobC

kovidgoyal · 02-23-2020, 10:07 PM

https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...34482a04e29b13

BobC · 02-24-2020, 07:05 AM

Kovid,

Thank you for the enhancement, I'll give it a whirl when I next update Calibre (it's not like anything is broken).

Only surprised no-one else has felt the need for this before - I just assumed it was there but I hadn't the wit to find out how to do it.

BobC

02-23-2020, 01:52 PM	#1
BobC Guru Posts: 691 Karma: 3026110 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lancashire, U.K. Device: BeBook 1, BeBook Pure, Kobo Glo, (and HD),Energy Sistem EReader Pro +	Select tag contents I've searched for a way to do this but with no success. Am I missing something ? What I want to do is to be able to go to the start of a HTML tag and then easily highlight all it's contents up to the matching closing tag. So for example everything between Code: <div class= "poem"> and it's matching </div> . I know how to toggle between the start and end using <CTL + { or } but I don't think that helps when to two are far apart and can't be seen on the same screen. The above can be useful to then "mark" the selected section so that I could for instance apply a S & R just to the marked text. BobC

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02-23-2020, 10:07 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	https://github.com/kovidgoyal/calibr...34482a04e29b13

02-24-2020, 07:05 AM	#3
BobC Guru Posts: 691 Karma: 3026110 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Lancashire, U.K. Device: BeBook 1, BeBook Pure, Kobo Glo, (and HD),Energy Sistem EReader Pro +	Kovid, Thank you for the enhancement, I'll give it a whirl when I next update Calibre (it's not like anything is broken). Only surprised no-one else has felt the need for this before - I just assumed it was there but I hadn't the wit to find out how to do it. BobC