Preserved Topic: reference to highlighted text?? (Page 1 of 1)

Hey:
I couldn't seem to find this in msdn.
like when I highlight some text in a page, how can I retrieve it's value??

document.createTextRange() seem too sophisticated, are there any easier references?

thanx

threep looks at galaxal with a quizzical expression and says:
"crtl+c?
uhmm.... in other words, i'm not entirely sure what you mean..."

ok, <input type=button onclick="alert(document.body.innerHTML)">
when you click that button, it will alert the entire body of the html page, is there something like document.body.highLightedText??



[This message has been edited by galaxal (edited 07-03-2001).]

Nope. You'll have to use text ranges...

Somewhere, I have a COPY TO CLIPBOARD script........I'll see if I can find it.

hmmm, there's an object called:
document.selection, and it has 2 childrens, .type and .typeDetail, however, i couldn't get it to work, is it a bug?

[This message has been edited by galaxal (edited 07-05-2001).]