DHTML Methods
Expands the range so that partial units are completely contained.
bSuccess = TextRange.expand ( unit )
| unit |
Required. Units to move in the range. This can be one of the following:
| character |
Expands a character. |
| word |
Expands a word. A word is a collection of characters terminated by a space or another white-space character, such as a tab. |
| sentence |
Expands a sentence. A sentence is a collection of words terminated by an ending punctuation character, such as a period. |
| textedit |
Expands to enclose the entire range. |
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Returns TRUE if it successfully expands the range, or FALSE otherwise.
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The following example creates a range from the current selection and then uses expand to ensure that any word partially enclosed by the range becomes entirely enclosed in the range.
var rng = document.selection.createRange ( );
rng.expand ( "word" );
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