de-selecting text on a page

[mitch]

I'm trying to clear the currently selected
text on a page. This line works from IE:

document.selection.empty();

and this one from Firefox:

window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();

However it seems like neither works with Safari
1.2. In Safari, window.getSelection() is defined but
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges() is undefined.
Any ideas how to do the de-selection on Safari? Thanks.

 

[Patient Guy]

I'm trying to clear the currently selected
text on a page. This line works from IE:

document.selection.empty();

and this one from Firefox:

window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();

However it seems like neither works with Safari
1.2. In Safari, window.getSelection() is defined but
window.getSelection().removeAllRanges() is undefined.
Any ideas how to do the de-selection on Safari? Thanks.

Does it help to create a Range object from your selection and work with
that? On the belief that a Selection object is distinct from a Range
object and some sort of alternate browser-specific reference to a range
just the same....