Question

I was trying example code found here http://api.jquery.com/select/

$(":input").select( function () { 
      $("div").text("Something was selected").show().fadeOut(1000); 
    });

Now my question is instead of printing “Something was selected” , can I get exact selected text?

I want jquery .select() specific answers . I got other solution from here

Answer 1

.select() has nothing to do with retrieving the actual selected text. Select is just like .click(): an easy, shorthand way way to bind a handler function to the select event.

It says right in the API docs:

The method for retrieving the current selected text differs from one browser to another. A number of jQuery plug-ins offer cross-platform solutions.

So you bind with element.select(...) (or better still, element.on("select", ...)), and then you use one of the many cross-platform solutions to retrieve the selection. This is the basic idea: http://jsfiddle.net/NjW5a/3/