Word.ContentControlSelectionChangedEventArgs interface

Package:

word

Provides information about the content control that raised contentControlSelectionChanged event.

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi 1.5 ]

Examples

// Link to full sample: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OfficeDev/office-js-snippets/prod/samples/word/10-content-controls/content-control-onselectionchanged-event.yaml

await Word.run(async (context) => {
  const contentControls: Word.ContentControlCollection = context.document.contentControls;
  contentControls.load("items");
  await context.sync();

  if (contentControls.items.length === 0) {
    console.log("There aren't any content controls in this document so can't register event handlers.");
  } else {
    for (let i = 0; i < contentControls.items.length; i++) {
      eventContexts[i] = contentControls.items[i].onSelectionChanged.add(contentControlSelectionChanged);
      contentControls.items[i].track();
    }

    await context.sync();

    console.log("Added event handlers for when selections are changed in content controls.");
  }
});

...

async function contentControlSelectionChanged(event: Word.ContentControlSelectionChangedEventArgs) {
  await Word.run(async (context) => {
    console.log(`${event.eventType} event detected. IDs of content controls where selection was changed:`, event.ids);
  });
}

Properties

eventType	The event type. See Word.EventType for details.
ids	Gets the content control IDs.
source	The source of the event. It can be local or remote (through coauthoring).

Property Details

eventType

The event type. See Word.EventType for details.

eventType: Word.EventType | "ContentControlDeleted" | "ContentControlSelectionChanged" | "ContentControlDataChanged" | "ContentControlAdded" | "ContentControlEntered" | "ContentControlExited" | "ParagraphAdded" | "ParagraphChanged" | "ParagraphDeleted" | "AnnotationClicked" | "AnnotationHovered" | "AnnotationInserted" | "AnnotationRemoved" | "AnnotationPopupAction";

Property Value

Word.EventType | "ContentControlDeleted" | "ContentControlSelectionChanged" | "ContentControlDataChanged" | "ContentControlAdded" | "ContentControlEntered" | "ContentControlExited" | "ParagraphAdded" | "ParagraphChanged" | "ParagraphDeleted" | "AnnotationClicked" | "AnnotationHovered" | "AnnotationInserted" | "AnnotationRemoved" | "AnnotationPopupAction"

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi 1.5 ]

ids

Gets the content control IDs.

ids: number[];

Property Value

number[]

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi 1.5 ]

source

The source of the event. It can be local or remote (through coauthoring).

source: Word.EventSource | "Local" | "Remote";

Property Value

Word.EventSource | "Local" | "Remote"

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi 1.5 ]