Get Selected/Highlighted text using JQuery
In this article, we will be going through a simple Javascript and JQuery code that enables us to get the selected or highlighted text.
In case, you want to show a custom menu or enable user to share the text via social medias or copy the selected text, this would be pretty useful.
Source Code
function getSelectionText() { var text = ""; if (window.getSelection) { text = window.getSelection().toString(); } else if (document.selection && document.selection.type != "Control") { text = document.selection.createRange().text; } return text; } $(document).ready(function() { $(document).bind("mouseup", function() { var selectedText = getSelectionText(); if(selectedText != ''){ alert(selectedText); } }); });