Question

Does anyone know how to select node (element) in IE8 in javascript?
Not using third-party libs is preferred.

In IE9 you can do like this:

var sel = window.getSelection();
sel.removeAllRanges();
var range = document.createRange();
range.selectNode(node);
sel.addRange(range);

How you can do this in IE8?

Answer 1

For older IE it’s this, provided node is an element:

var range = document.body.createTextRange();
range.moveToElementText(node);
range.select();

For a full cross-browser solution, see

https://stackoverflow.com/a/2044793/96100