Getting selected text with CKEditor Plugin on IE

Question

I have made a plugin for CKEditor, but it relies on the currently selected text.

In FF and Chrome I can use:

var selectedText = editor.getSelection().getNative();  

but this doesn't work in IE and I only get [object Object]

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This is what I use:

var mySelection = editor.getSelection();

if (CKEDITOR.env.ie) {
    mySelection.unlock(true);
    selectedText = mySelection.getNative().createRange().text;
} else {
    selectedText = mySelection.getNative();
}