window.getSelection() does not work

[MyOwnClone]

Dear newsgroup,
I am dealing with little problem. I am trying to get (from my
extension) user selected text from actual page. I am using recommended
code:

var selection = window.getSelection();

but, when I am trying to convert it using toString() or even print it
using:

alert(selection.toString());

I got only empty popup without any text.
When I tried to use Venkmann to debug this code, I've come to
conclusion that whole selection object I've got is empty (all members
are 0 or null).

Does anybody know how to deal with this?

Thank you for any information.
Tomas Vymazal

[Neil]

MyOwnClone wrote:

>I am dealing with little problem. I am trying to get (from my extension) user selected text from actual page. I am using recommended code:
>
>var selection = window.getSelection();
>

That's the browser's window, not the page's window. You probably want
content.getSelection(); see
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Working_with_windows_in_chrome_code#Content_windows

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[MyOwnClone]

On 14 srp, 16:32, Neil <n...@parkwaycc.co.uk> wrote:
> MyOwnClone wrote:
> >I am dealing with little problem. I am trying to get (from my extension) user selected text from actual page. I am using recommended code:
>
> >var selection = window.getSelection();
>
> That's the browser's window, not the page's window. You probably want

> content.getSelection(); seehttps://developer.mozilla.org/en/Working_with_windows_in_chrome_code#...

>
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> Warning: May contain traces of nuts.

Many thanks!
This proved helpful. Now I am using this code to get selected text
from actual page:

var selObj = content.document.getSelection();

Everything works fine. Thank you again,
Tomas Vymazal