Javascript 操控选择文本

Querying Selected Text
查询选择的文本

[quote]This is an area where little standardization exists, but it is possible to query the selected text in all modern browsers.[/quote]

在这个方面，没有什么标准存在；但还是有可能读取用户选择的文本的：

function getSelectedText() {
    if (window.getSelection) {
        // This technique is the most likely to be standardized.
        // getSelection() returns a Selection object, which we do not document.
        return window.getSelection().toString();
    }
    else if (document.getSelection) {
        // This is an older, simpler technique that returns a string
        return document.getSelection();
    }
    else if (document.selection) {
        // This is the IE-specific technique.
        // We do not document the IE selection property or TextRange objects.
        return document.selection.createRange().text;
    }
}

The Selection and TextRange objects
Selection和TextRange对象

[quote]The getSelection() methods of the Window and Document object do not return selected text if it is within an <input> or <textarea> form element: they only return text selected from the body of the document itself.
The IE document.selection property, on the other hand, returns selected text from anywhere in the document.
[/quote]

getSelection()方法是无法返回输入框或文本域中的内容的，它只能返回文档本身的文字内容。
但是IE独有的document.selection属性倒是哪里的内容都可以访问到。

function getTextFieldSelection(e) {
     if (e.selectionStart != undefined && e.selectionEnd != undefined) {
         var start = e.selectionStart;
         var end = e.selectionEnd;
         return e.value.substring(start, end);
     }
     else return "";  // Not supported on this browser
}

很多网上划词的功能都是建立在这些方法上的，值得学习~