Question

think this should be an easy one… I want to get the currently selected text using jquery’s select() function.

$('textarea').select(function(selection) {
    alert(selection);
});

This returns [object Object]… how do I return the selected text?

Many thanks

Answer 1

From jquery’s select() doc:

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

a quick google search for “jquery get selected text” turned up this:

http://motyar.blogspot.com/2010/02/get-user-selected-text-with-jquery-and.html
this:
http://mark.koli.ch/2009/09/use-javascript-and-jquery-to-get-user-selected-text.html
and many more