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    <p>Getting the text the user has selected is relatively simple. There's no benefit to be gained by involving jQuery since you need nothing other than the <code>window</code> and <code>document</code> objects.</p> <pre><code>function getSelectionText() { var text = ""; if (window.getSelection) { text = window.getSelection().toString(); } else if (document.selection &amp;&amp; document.selection.type != "Control") { text = document.selection.createRange().text; } return text; } </code></pre> <p>If you're interested in an implementation that will also deal with selections in <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> and texty <code>&lt;input&gt;</code> elements, you could use the following. Since it's now 2016 I'm omitting the code required for IE &lt;= 8 support but I've posted stuff for that in many places on SO.</p> <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-js lang-js prettyprint-override"><code>function getSelectionText() { var text = ""; var activeEl = document.activeElement; var activeElTagName = activeEl ? activeEl.tagName.toLowerCase() : null; if ( (activeElTagName == "textarea") || (activeElTagName == "input" &amp;&amp; /^(?:text|search|password|tel|url)$/i.test(activeEl.type)) &amp;&amp; (typeof activeEl.selectionStart == "number") ) { text = activeEl.value.slice(activeEl.selectionStart, activeEl.selectionEnd); } else if (window.getSelection) { text = window.getSelection().toString(); } return text; } document.onmouseup = document.onkeyup = document.onselectionchange = function() { document.getElementById("sel").value = getSelectionText(); };</code></pre> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>Selection: &lt;br&gt; &lt;textarea id="sel" rows="3" cols="50"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;p&gt;Please select some text.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;input value="Some text in a text input"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;input type="search" value="Some text in a search input"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;input type="tel" value="4872349749823"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;textarea&gt;Some text in a textarea&lt;/textarea&gt;</code></pre> </div> </div> </p>
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    2. CO@Dan: Sorry, I missed this question (don't think SO alerted me to it). The second branch is for IE <= 8 (IE 9 implements `window.getSelection()`). The `document.selection.type` check is testing that the selection is a text selection rather than a control selection. In IE, a control selection is a selection inside an editable element containing one or more elements (such as images and form controls) with outlines and resize handles. If you call `.createRange()` on such a selection, you get a `ControlRange` rather than a `TextRange`, and `ControlRange`s have no `text` property.
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