Selection with HTML?

[Bruno Barberi Gnecco]

Hi,

This question has been asked a few times in this group, but I
haven't been able to find an answer to any of the posts. window.getSelection()
returns the selected pure text, how to get it with the HTML tags?

Thanks a lot for any help.

--
Bruno Barberi Gnecco <brunobg_at_users.sourceforge.net>
Simon's Law:
Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.

[Martin Honnen]

Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:

This question has been asked a few times in this group, but I
haven't been able to find an answer to any of the posts.
window.getSelection()
returns the selected pure text, how to get it with the HTML tags?

window.getSelection() gives you a selection object, not a string. You
can access a range in the selection and clone its contents, then append
to a div to extract the innerHTML e.g.
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = selection.getRangeAt(0);
if (range != null) {
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.appendChild(range.cloneContents());
alert(div.innerHTML);
}

<http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/Selection.html>
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Bruno Barberi Gnecco]

Martin Honnen wrote:

Bruno Barberi Gnecco wrote:

> This question has been asked a few times in this group, but I
haven't been able to find an answer to any of the posts.
window.getSelection()
returns the selected pure text, how to get it with the HTML tags?

window.getSelection() gives you a selection object, not a string. You
can access a range in the selection and clone its contents, then append
to a div to extract the innerHTML e.g.
var selection = window.getSelection();
var range = selection.getRangeAt(0);
if (range != null) {
var div = document.createElement('div');
div.appendChild(range.cloneContents());
alert(div.innerHTML);
}

<http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/Selection.html>

Thanks a lot, exactly what I needed.

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Bruno Barberi Gnecco <brunobg_at_users.sourceforge.net>
It is exactly because a man cannot do a
thing that he is a proper judge of it.
-- Oscar Wilde