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Home / Text Effects / Get the currently selected text with JavaScript

Get the currently selected text with JavaScript

Get the currently selected text

Use Window.getSelection() and Selection.toString() to get the currently selected text.

const getSelectedText = () => window.getSelection().toString();

// OUTPUT
getSelectedText(); // 'Lorem ipsum'

Source

https://www.30secondsofcode.org/js/s/get-selected-text

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