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.

 

[Martin Honnen]

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>

 

[Bruno Barberi Gnecco]

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.