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Asked: 2026-05-23T02:26:42+00:00

Can a Selection object be created without any user interaction? window.getSelection() does return a

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Can a Selection object be created without any user interaction? window.getSelection() does return a Selection object, but you can’t modify() it unless the user has some sort of selection made.

Is it possible to create a selection which starts at the very first element on the page and then be able to modify() it, without the need for the user to do anything?

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/L5M3U/

It doesn’t select anything on page load, but if you click on anything it does make a selection.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If I understand what you’re asking, then yes, you can programmatically set the selection using its addRange() method. For example, to select the whole of the document’s <body> element when the page loads, you could do:

    function selectBody() {
    var range = document.createRange();
    range.selectNode(document.body);
    var sel = window.getSelection();
    sel.removeAllRanges();
    sel.addRange(range);
}

window.onload = selectBody;

    This doesn’t work on IE < 9, which has a whole different approach to ranges and selections.

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