Question

In JavaScript, there is a method window.getSelection(), that lets me get the current selection that the user has made.

Is there a corresponding function, something like window.setSelection(), that will let me set, or clear, the current selection?

Answer 1

Maybe this will do it:

window.selection.clear();

Crossbrowser version:

if (window.getSelection) {
   if (window.getSelection().empty) {  // Chrome
     window.getSelection().empty();
   } else if (window.getSelection().removeAllRanges) {  // Firefox
     window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();
   }
} else if (document.selection) {  // IE?
  document.selection.empty();
}