Question

Okay, so I am trying to figure out how to get a link href if the user has highlightened text is contained within a text…

So for example if the following is a link

<a href="http://www.google.com">Find us on Google</a>

and the user hightlights the text “Google”

<a href="http://www.google.com">Find us on Google</a>

So the question is:
After the user highlights text (as in to copy and paste it) they well hit a button and it will return what the link is for the selected text.

I hope I made this clear, wasn’t really sure how to phrase it.

Answer 1

window.getSelection().anchorNode.parentNode.href;

or in IE:

document.selection.createRange().parentElement().href;

should get the element’s href where the text is selected ?