Comments on: getSelection() Workaround for Safari 1.3, 2.0 and Firefox 1.0.3

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:19:39 +0000

Very nice reading, it helped me a lot!

By: Luke

Luke — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:42:17 +0000

This is great! It works great selecting text on the page, but it won’t work when select text in a textarea. Is that possible?

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:49:51 +0000

@ekbworldwide I don’t think you can return HTML, but you can apparently grab the DOM nodes which can be translated back into HTML. I’ve never done it, but try this post as a place to start:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.javascript/msg/db76484c36bde1be

By: ekbworldwide

ekbworldwide — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:36:06 +0000

I ended up at thread by googling
intitle:getSelection

I hope somebody can answer my question.

Using a bookmarklet I can grab a selection as text – tmp=document.getSelection(); – my question is – how can I grab a selection as html?

By: winderboy

winderboy — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:07:08 +0000

FF:
var selection = window.getSelection();
if(selection.selectionStart==selection.selectionEnd)
{
alert(“you haven’t select any text!”);
}

By: -kinetic

-kinetic — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:55:28 +0000

Anybody know how to get a range object from selection for safari? I want to be able to clone the range, like mentioned above, but unsure of how to go from selection to range without a getRangeAt function.

By: ice

ice — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:12:06 +0000

window.getSelection() can’t get Selection in IFrame for Safari?
any other ways?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 May 2006 15:50:38 +0000

cross-browser: http://www.quirksmode.org/js/selected.html