How to get selected text from browser

[mor...@hotmail.com]

Hi,

I'd like to do something pretty basic in a browser extension that
involves getting information that is highlighted - how can I evaluate
what is highlighted in the browser? Thanks for your help with this
basic question.

[mark bokil]

See window.getSelection here:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.getSelection

[LouCypher]

var focusedWindow = document.commandDispatcher.focusedWindow;
var winWrapper = new XPCNativeWrapper(focusedWindow, "document",
"getSelection()");
var string = winWrapper.getSelection().toString();

[Soyapi Mumba]

LouCypher wrote:
> var focusedWindow = document.commandDispatcher.focusedWindow;
> var winWrapper = new XPCNativeWrapper(focusedWindow, "document",
> "getSelection()");

document.getSelection() is deprecated. For the line above, use:

var winWrapper = new XPCNativeWrapper(focusedWindow, "window", "getSelection()");

> var string = winWrapper.getSelection().toString();

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[Matthew Smith]

A recent thread talked about working with selected text:

> See window.getSelection here:
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.getSelection

I have just been trying to implement this in Firefox 2. If I have a
button on my toolbar that calls this:

selObj = window.getSelection();
window.alert(selObj);

I just get an empty alert. (This is copied straight from the MDC page
Dom:selection.)

I have looked through DomInspector to see if there is another window
object that I should be using, but using other window objects that I
found like this:

document.getElementById('content').selectedBrowser.focusedWindow.getSelection()

...doesn't work either.

Can anyone tell me how to do this in Firefox?

Cheers

M

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[Neil]

Matthew Smith wrote:

>A recent thread talked about working with selected text:
>
>>>I'd like to do something pretty basic in a browser extension that involves getting information that is highlighted - how can I evaluate what is highlighted in the browser? Thanks for your help with this basic question.
>>>
>>>
>>See window.getSelection here:
>>http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/DOM:window.getSelection
>>
>>
>I have just been trying to implement this in Firefox 2. If I have a button on my toolbar that calls this:
>
>selObj = window.getSelection();
>window.alert(selObj);
>
>I just get an empty alert.
>

content.getSelection() probably suffices in your case.

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