Getting Selected Text

[afrinspray]

Is there a way to get the selected text inside a div, or other element?

Mike

[Alex]

Pass into the function the DV's Id.

function selectext(element_id) {
var d=document;
if(d.getElementById ) {
var elem = d.getElementById(element_id);
if(elem) {
if(d.createRange) {
var rng = d.createRange();
if(rng.selectNodeContents) {
rng.selectNodeContents(elem);
if(window.getSelection) {
var sel=window.getSelection();
if(sel.removeAllRanges) sel.removeAllRanges();
if(sel.addRange) sel.addRange(rng);
}
}
} else if(d.body && d.body.createTextRange) {
var rng = d.body.createTextRange();
rng.moveToElementText(elem);
rng.select();
}
}
}
}

[afrinspray]

I didn't want to set the text of an element, but your function gave me
the window.getSelection() function to lead me in the right direction.
This function doesn't work for me in IE, so I made this function
below... it seems to work alright.

function getSelectedText() {

if(window.getSelection) {
return window.getSelection();
}
else if(document.selection.createRange().text) {
return document.selection.createRange().text;
}

return '';

}

[RobG]

afrinspray said on 28/03/2006 9:18 AM AEST:

I didn't want to set the text of an element, but your function gave me
the window.getSelection() function to lead me in the right direction.
This function doesn't work for me in IE, so I made this function
below... it seems to work alright.

function getSelectedText() {

if(window.getSelection) {
return window.getSelection();
}
else if(document.selection.createRange().text) {
return document.selection.createRange().text;
}

return '';

}

That won't work in browsers that support only DOM 0 window.getSelection,
such as Safari 1.3. If you want a better cross-browser script, try this
one at quirksmode:
<URL:http://www.quirksmode.org/js/selected.html>

--
Rob

[afrinspray]

Awesome thanks!