Selected text event trigger in Javascript
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How to trigger a JavaScript function when someone selects a given text fragment on a page using mouse?
Also, is there any way to find the position of selected text on the page?
Update: To be more clear, text fragment can be part of a sentence or a word or a phrase or whole a paragraph.
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
There is no "Text was selected" (DOM) event, but you can bind a mouseup event to the document.body. Within that event handler, you might just check the
document.selection.createRange().text
or
window.getSelection()
methods. There are several topics on Stackoverflow, like this one https://stackoverflow.com/questions/845390/javascript-to-get-paragraph-of-selected-text-in-web-page.
I'm not sure what you mean with "finding the position", but to stay in my example world you could use the event propertys for X+Y mouse positions.
Example: http://www.jsfiddle.net/2C6fB/1/
Solution 2 - Javascript
Here's a quick mashup:
$('div').mouseup(function() {
var text=getSelectedText();
if (text!='') alert(text);
});
function getSelectedText() {
if (window.getSelection) {
return window.getSelection().toString();
} else if (document.selection) {
return document.selection.createRange().text;
}
return '';
}
<div>Here is some text</div>
Solution 3 - Javascript
There is a new experimental API that deals with this:
The selectionchange event of the Selection API is fired when the selection object of the document is modified, or when the selection associated with an <input> or a <textarea> changes. The selectionchange event is fired at the document in the first case, on the element in the second case.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/selectionchange
Note that this is bleeding edge and not guaranteed to work across even major browsers.
Solution 4 - Javascript
I'm not sure about the mouse thing but this line works for mobile, this invoked every time a change made on the text selection -
document.addEventListener('selectionchange', () => {
});
Solution 5 - Javascript
AFAIK, there is no such event you described. But you can emulate that function.
Look over here for the code and demo.
Solution 6 - Javascript
There is "Text was selected" event. But only for textarea as I hava known.
<textarea onselect="message()" name="summary" cols="60" rows="5">
请写入个人简介，不少于200字！
</textarea>
Solution 7 - Javascript
var selectedText = "";
if (window.getSelection) {
selectedText = window.getSelection();
}
if (document.getSelection) {
selectedText = document.getSelection();
}
if (document.selection) {
selectedText = document.selection.createRange().text;
}
function textSelector() {
alert(selectedText);
}
textSelector();
Solution 8 - Javascript
When you press the mouse button down, the mousedown event is fired, when the mouse button is released, the mouseup and then click events are fired.
So we listen to the mouseup event and check if any text has been selected, and respective operations are performed.
const p = document.getElementById('interactiveText');
p.addEventListener('mouseup', (e) => {
const selection = window.getSelection().toString();
if (selection === '') {
console.log('click');
} else {
console.log('selection', selection);
}
});
Solution 9 - Javascript
There is a shortcut to get the selected text from event object.
event.currentTarget[event.currentTarget.selectedIndex].text
Solution 10 - Javascript
You can check it out on MDN. It's exactly what you need.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/select_event
The event is trigger and return the selected text when the selection is done.
If you want the selected text on every time the selection change. There is the selectionchange event for document and html input and textarea. Selectionchange event for document is supported on most browsers but it is supported only on Firefox for html input and textarea elements.
There is a polyfill for that which will support for all browsers.