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aGoodRussianGuy
aGoodRussianGuy

Reputation: 173

How to select a text in the HTML page only?

I need to show the selected text into popup window, okay, I created the popup window and added event handler, for example.

$("body").on("click", function(){
    var selectedText = window.getSelection().toString() ;
    myPopupWindow.show(selectedText) ;
})

And then I show the text into the popup window, but when I select a text into the popup window it appears again, but I don't want to appear it again when popup is showing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 77

Answers (2)

Alessio Cantarella
Alessio Cantarella

Reputation: 5201

add an if statement to check the visibility of your popup:

$("body").on("click", function() {
    if ($("#popup").css("display") == "none") {
        var selectedText = window.getSelection().toString() ;
        myPopupWindow.show(selectedText);
    }
})

Upvotes: 1

Jon Lauters
Jon Lauters

Reputation: 56

change your $("body") to something more specific like a container div of just the web content, so text selection in the popup doesn't trigger the same action.

Upvotes: 0

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