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POgetSelection.toString() - without using toString()?
 

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    <p>I need to extract text from a selection and send it to a TTS service. The TTS service will return a stream URL and a set of indices for each word, indicating where they start and end (in both time and text).</p> <p>When the user plays the stream I want to highlight each word as they are read out. To do that I can't just use the text indices for each word, because they can not get me back to the original HTML nodes - hence why I can't use <code>toString()</code> which is strictly text.</p> <p>What I'm doing so far is creating a TreeWalker using the start and end containers of the range object and using that to extract all the text nodes in the range.</p> <p><strong>Problem:</strong> <code>window.getSelection().toString()</code> inherently ignores nodes that are not displayed. That includes <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> nodes, <code>&lt;style&gt;</code> node, nodes with <code>display: none;</code> and the likes. Using TreeWalker doesn't.</p> <p>I know I can manually skip all of these nodes in the TreeWalker (like suggested in <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7256608/getselection-without-alt-attribute-and-scripts-in-it">getSelection without alt attribute and scripts in it?</a>), but it can become quite complex really fast (especially checking the visibility of each node).</p> <p>Before going into this I wanted to ask, if there are any new methods or libraries available that have emerged since the question I linked was answered?</p> <p>I don't intend the code to be cross browser and I'm using plain Javascript (i.e. no jQuery).</p>
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