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Asked: May 24, 20262026-05-24T15:49:22+00:00 2026-05-24T15:49:22+00:00

I have a textarea control in my website. I want to retrieve start and

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I have a textarea control in my website.
I want to retrieve start and end position of selected text in the text area, for Internet Explorer.

How can I do it?

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    2026-05-24T15:49:22+00:00Added an answer on May 24, 2026 at 3:49 pm

    Might I encourage you to use Rangy?

    A cross-browser JavaScript range and selection library. It provides a simple standards-based API for performing common DOM Range and Selection tasks in all major browsers, abstracting away the wildly different implementations of this functionality between Internet Explorer and DOM-compliant browsers.

    See Selection Objects in Rangy.

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