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    copied!<p>Here's a simple example of how to retain the selection when the user clicks a particular element. It stores the selection <code>Range</code>(s) or <code>TextRange</code> (IE &lt;= 8) in the <code>mousedown</code> event of the element and reselects those ranges in the <code>mouseup</code> event.</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var saveSelection, restoreSelection; if (window.getSelection) { // IE 9 and non-IE saveSelection = function() { var sel = window.getSelection(), ranges = []; if (sel.rangeCount) { for (var i = 0, len = sel.rangeCount; i &lt; len; ++i) { ranges.push(sel.getRangeAt(i)); } } return ranges; }; restoreSelection = function(savedSelection) { var sel = window.getSelection(); sel.removeAllRanges(); for (var i = 0, len = savedSelection.length; i &lt; len; ++i) { sel.addRange(savedSelection[i]); } }; } else if (document.selection &amp;&amp; document.selection.createRange) { // IE &lt;= 8 saveSelection = function() { var sel = document.selection; return (sel.type != "None") ? sel.createRange() : null; }; restoreSelection = function(savedSelection) { if (savedSelection) { savedSelection.select(); } }; } window.onload = function() { var specialDiv = document.getElementById("special"); var savedSel = null; specialDiv.onmousedown = function() { savedSel = saveSelection(); }; specialDiv.onmouseup = function() { restoreSelection(savedSel); }; }; &lt;/script&gt; &lt;p&gt; Select something up here and click on one of the areas below. &lt;b&gt;The first will lose the selection&lt;/b&gt;, while the second will keep it. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;div style="border: solid blue 1px"&gt;Normal div&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="special" style="border: solid blue 1px"&gt;Special div. Press me and keep the selection&lt;/div&gt; </code></pre>
 

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