Name

selection — NN n/a IE 4 DOM n/a

Synopsis

Read-only

Returns a selection object. To work with text that has been selected by the user or script, you must convert the selection to a TextRange object. This is possible only in Internet Explorer for Win32.

Example

var range = document.selection.createRange( )

Value

Object reference.

Default

None.

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