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learningtech

Reputation: 33685

How do I use Javascript or jQuery get highlighted text?

How do I get javascript or jquery to grab me text that I've selected/high lighted with my mouse or keyboard?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 884

Answers (2)

g_thom
g_thom

Reputation: 2810

Similar to the above, this outputs the selected text to a div (adapted from http://mark.koli.ch/2009/09/use-javascript-and-jquery-to-get-user-selected-text.html):

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script language=javascript>
$(document).ready( function() {
var txt = '';
function getSelected()
{   
  if (window.getSelection) {
    txt = window.getSelection();
  }
  else if(document.getSelection) {
    txt = document.getSelection();
  }
  else if(document.selection) {
    txt = document.selection.createRange().text;
  }
      txt = txt.toString();
  return txt;  
}

$('#container').mouseup( function() {
    $('#message').html(getSelected());
});
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
#message {
    min-height: 20px;
    width: 300px;
    border: 1px solid orange;
    padding: 5px;
}
</style>
<div id="message"></div>
<div id="container">
<p>Text to select</p>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

Niklas
Niklas

Reputation: 30002

For textareas, you can use this (as seen on javascript wrap text with tag ): 

 var val;
          el = document.getElementById('textarea');
          if (el.setSelectionRange) {
    //webkit & ff
            var val = el.value.substring(el.selectionStart,el.selectionEnd);
          }
          else if(document.selection.createRange()) {
// ie
              var val = document.selection.createRange().text; 
          }

Upvotes: 0

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