JavaScript Set Window selection

Question

In JavaScript, there is a method window.getSelection(), that lets me get the current selection that the user has made.

Is there a corresponding function, something like window.setSelection(), that will let me set, or clear, the current selection?

Answer 1

Clearing the selection in all major browsers:

function clearSelection() {     if (window.getSelection) {         window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();     } else if (document.selection) {         document.selection.empty();     } } 

Selecting content requires use of DOM Range and Selection objects in most browsers and TextRange objects in IE < 9. Here's a simple cross-browser example that selects the contents of a particular element:

function selectElement(element) {     if (window.getSelection) {         var sel = window.getSelection();         sel.removeAllRanges();         var range = document.createRange();         range.selectNodeContents(element);         sel.addRange(range);     } else if (document.selection) {         var textRange = document.body.createTextRange();         textRange.moveToElementText(element);         textRange.select();     } } 

Answer 2

Maybe this will do it:

window.selection.clear(); 

Crossbrowser version:

if (window.getSelection) {    if (window.getSelection().empty) {  // Chrome      window.getSelection().empty();    } else if (window.getSelection().removeAllRanges) {  // Firefox      window.getSelection().removeAllRanges();    } } else if (document.selection) {  // IE?   document.selection.empty(); }