Question

I am trying to write a chrome extension for windows, that copies any selected text from the page to the clipboard.I am using jquery for doing the java script part.

How can i get any selected/highlighted text in that page? To put it in other way,is there an event listener, that gets triggered when any portion of text is highlighted.

Answer 1

function getSelected() {
  if (window.getSelection) return window.getSelection();
  if (document.getSelection) return document.getSelection();
  if (document.selection) return document.selection.createRange().text;
}

document.onmouseup = function () {
  getSelected(); // => "Something you've sele..."
};

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Demo