User is on a webpage , uses his mouse to select stuff, how can i use javascript to know what has been selected?
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3Do you want the nodes, or just the text? – outis Nov 09 '09 at 04:10
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If you wanted the nodes: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4220478/get-all-dom-block-elements-for-selected-texts – Ebrahim Byagowi Jul 21 '12 at 21:43
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To get the raw text currently highlighted on the page you can do something like this:
function getSelectedText() {
return window.getSelection ? window.getSelection()
: document.selection.createRange().text;
}
Check an example of the above code here.
More info:
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If you're talking about the user dragging his mouse over text so that it's highlighted, use the Selection and Range objects (for Mozilla) and Selection and TextRange objects (for IE).
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