Javascript: error 800a025e using range selector

Question

I'm executing these simple rows of javascript in latest ie 11, just to select all content of a div

Here a screenshot from ie11 dev tool

Like you can see, IE alter me saying: "unable to complete the operation due to error 800a025e".

I'm not able to understand the nature, the source, of the problem, and no others stack overflow questions I read give me a clear answer.

This is full code of my selectText jQuery "personal" extension

jQuery.fn.selectText = function(){
    var doc = document;
    var element = this[0];
    // console.log(this, element);
    if (typeof element == 'undefined') {
        return;
    }
    if (doc.body.createTextRange) {
        var range = document.body.createTextRange();
        range.moveToElementText(element);
        range.select();
    } else if (window.getSelection) {
        var selection = window.getSelection();        
        var range = document.createRange();
        range.selectNodeContents(element);
        selection.removeAllRanges();
        selection.addRange(range);
    }
};

Element in this case is a

[Object HTMLTableElement]

Edit 1: with a little mod:

var range = document.body.createTextRange();
var retval = range.moveToElementText(element);
console.log (retval);
range.select();

I'm able to say you retval is undefined. This code work on ff without problems, so element selector is fine. jQuery version is 1.11

Answer 1

I resolved using this trick:

I wrapped the html table with a DIV

I use the same code, as is, with no changes, against the DIV, instead of using for selecting only the table.

It's working.

Probably html table is not a selectable text for IE