Question

How to identify what text the user has selected in the web page??

Example: I want to build an application similar to online translation:

• The user is reading some html (provided to the user through my server)
• Then he/she selects a sentence in that page (asking for its translation)
• So the javascript should handle this event and send back to the server asking for the translation…

Any ideas how to know what text the user is currently selecting??

Answer 1

You need to do that using selection rage.

For example using getSelection() method.