Program to retrieve the text contents of the user selection using JavaScript.


Following is the code to retrieve the text contents of the user selection using JavaScript −

Example

 Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
<style>
   body {
      font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
   }
   .result,.sample {
      font-size: 20px;
      font-weight: 500;
      color: rebeccapurple;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Retrieve the text contents of the user selection</h1>
<div style="color: green;" class="result">
Here is some text inside the div
</div>
<div class="sample"></div>
<button class="Btn">SELECT</button>
<h3>Click on the above button to display the text selected by the user</h3>
<script>
   let resEle = document.querySelector(".result");
   let BtnEle = document.querySelector(".Btn");
   let sampleEle = document.querySelector(".sample");
   BtnEle.addEventListener("click", () => {
      sampleEle.innerHTML = window.getSelection().toString();
   });
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output

The above code will produce the following output −

On selecting some text and then clicking the ‘SELECT’ button −

Updated on: 18-Jul-2020

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