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Javascript Get Selected Text

Article by: Jeff Anderson (9/1/2006)
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Summary: A cross-browser script to get text selected by the user
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Javascript Get Selected Text



Sometimes you want to know what text the user has selected with their mouse. The methods of handling this are slightly different in each browser, so here is the code to deal with it:

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Now try it out. Select part of this sentence with your mouse, then click get selection. The resulting text will appear in the box below:




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Posted by :  kato at 06:13 on Thursday, October 12, 2006
Cool and easy to get selected text but wait...
What about getting the [b]position[/b] of the selection in the whole string (indexOf)?
If I select "The methods of handling this" on this page, I'll be ok.
If I select "this", I will get the index of the first occurence of "this" on this page : the one from "Rate this article" at the top.
Any idea?
Posted by :  ayappa at 01:44 on Wednesday, January 10, 2007
I have an html page. I select some portion of text on this page with the mouse. I want to introduce start and end tags at the beginning and end of the selected area of text.
I wish to name these tags as <one> and </one> and insert them in the html file at the respective positions.
I shall do this for several selections.

I shall then parse this html file for these tag names to identify the selected text and store the names in a table for future use.

Please help me with javascript or vbscript code to achieve the same.

Thanks
Posted by :  LOGANAYAKI at 04:46 on Sunday, March 04, 2007
Hi,
Please send codings to create login page with JSP and mySQL
Posted by :  hamedsabzian at 05:42 on Sunday, May 11, 2008
Hi;
Tank you for this useful post;
Posted by :  manish6789 at 01:31 on Wednesday, June 11, 2008
hi
i have a web page i wanna open this by using username and password for which i need html coding. i m mentioning the name of web page which is as follow. "admin.html"
Posted by :  PhaniReddy at 02:56 on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
how to know the status of parent window from being on the child window..wheather parent window closed or not..

Posted by :  PhaniReddy at 02:56 on Tuesday, July 29, 2008
how to a field name from java script when document is in rea mode?


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