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javascripthtmlsafarisafari-extension
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Reputation: 876

Getting selected text via Safari Extension

I started learning how to program a Safari extension, and unfortunately Apple's Developer Reference pages on that are not really detailed. Hence my question:

Anyone knows how I can pass the text selected by a user in a variable? My extension is a context menu element that needs to use that text the user selects from any webpage.

Thank you very much for your help :)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1628

Answers (1)

chulster
chulster

Reputation: 2829

In your injected script, have a statement like the following:

document.addEventListener('contextmenu', function () {
    safari.self.tab.setContextMenuEventUserInfo(event, window.getSelection());
}, false);

Then, in the command handler of your global script, the selection will be accessible as event.userInfo, so you can use it, for example, like this:

function handleCommand(event) {
    if (event.command == 'myContextMenuCommand') {
        alert('You selected: "' + event.userInfo + '"');
    }
}

Upvotes: 1

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