The Selection object represents any currently selected section of a document.
Sections of a document are typically selected by the user holding down a
mouse button and dragging the mouse, but can also be created by scripts using
the select method on a
Text Range Object.
Properties
type
The type property is read-only and can be one of two values
("None" or "Text"). If the user has selected some text and/or other elements
in a document, then the type property will return "Text", otherwise
if no selection has been made, the type property will return
"None".
Methods
clear
The clear method can be used to remove the current text selection
from the document. This is going to prove useful for people wanting to build
WYSIWYG HTML editors based on Internet Explorer 4.0. Coupled
with methods like the execCommand method (see the
Document Object)
to insert HTML elements, a new breed of editors will start to appear based
entirely on the Internet Explorer 4.0 HTML rendering engine.
createRange
The createRange method creates a
Text Range object
from the current active selection. This can then be manipulated through the
properties, methods and events of the TextRange object.
empty
The empty method deselects the current selection, sets the selection
type to "none", and sets the item property to null. The visual
effect of the empty method is deselection of the text (i.e.
its highlight is removed) Note : The two methods
will only work in the text section below and at the time of writing, using
the empty method caused the document to scroll to the top.
For example:
Select your method choice from the radio buttons below, then select any of
this text (left-mouse button and drag) and press the right-mouse button to
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Events
The Selection Object has no events.
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