window.getSelection() does not work in my extension

[khalil dureidy]

I use in my extension a javascript function window.getSelection() to
get a selected text in an open chrome tab, but it always return empty
String
what should I do to make it work?

Thanks,
Khalil.

[Arne Roomann-Kurrik]

It's really hard to speculate what you might be doing wrong without seeing any code.  So instead of telling you what you need to change, here's a sample extension which grabs the selection from the current page and renders it in a popup:

https://github.com/kurrik/chrome-extensions/tree/master/contentscript-selection

You might be able to figure out what to do from looking at that code.

~Arne

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[arthur]

FYI. With my limited experience, Chrome Extension content script can't
get selection from iframe (e.g. Gmail/Gdoc)

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=65636

http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/a955986561a861c0?hl=en#

I didn't get much input and didn't test newer versions of Chrome after that.

Arthur

On 11/04/2011 1:51 PM, Arne Roomann-Kurrik wrote:
> It's really hard to speculate what you might be doing wrong without
> seeing any code. So instead of telling you what you need to change,
> here's a sample extension which grabs the selection from the current
> page and renders it in a popup:
>
> https://github.com/kurrik/chrome-extensions/tree/master/contentscript-selection
>
> You might be able to figure out what to do from looking at that code.
>

> <https://github.com/kurrik/chrome-extensions/tree/master/contentscript-selection>~Arne

>
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM, khalil dureidy <kdur...@gmail.com
> <mailto:kdur...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> I use in my extension a javascript function window.getSelection() to
> get a selected text in an open chrome tab, but it always return empty
> String
> what should I do to make it work?
>
> Thanks,
> Khalil.
>
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