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Get text selection in FireFox/Mozilla?

Can anyone give me a Javascript snippet that will get the currently selected
text in a TEXTAREA element? The code I have only works in IE.

Thanks.
Sep 25 '05 #1
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Robert Oschler wrote in message news:_9********************@adelphia.com...
Can anyone give me a Javascript snippet that will get the currently selected
text in a TEXTAREA element? The code I have only works in IE.


like this?
http://www.codingforums.com/archive/...p/t-44821.html
Sep 25 '05 #2

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