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How to get the selected text from a HTML document using JavaScript?

Published: February 22, 2020Last updated: July 22, 2020JavaScript

The use case was quite simple. We had an HTML document where the user was selecting a block of text. We wanted to get that selected text using JavaScript. Following the code segment that does that in JavaScript:

window.getSelection().toString

Source:
Selected text JavaScript

Get selection JavaScript

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