Name
selection — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a
Synopsis
The selection
object
represents zero or more characters that have been either explicitly
selected in a document by the user or selected under script control.
All actions on the content of a selection are done via a
TextRange
object, which can be created from the
selection object (see the TextRange
object).
TextRange
and selection
objects
are available in Navigator 4 only in the Win32 environment. The
selection
object belongs to the
document
object.
Navigator 4 offers script access to the text selected in a document
via the document.getSelection( )
method.
In all browsers, be aware that clicking on buttons deselects the
current text selection. Therefore, all scripted action involving
selections must be triggered by select events or functions invoked by
a timer (see the window.setTimeout( )
method
description in Chapter 11).
Object Model Reference
- IE
document.selection
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