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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?
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The second API is very simple, as it works with text. Setting the selection: let selection = document. getSelection(); // directly: selection.
getSelection() The Window. getSelection() method returns a Selection object representing the range of text selected by the user or the current position of the caret.
The anchor is where the user began the selection and the focus is where the user ends the selection.
In this code, we first get a copy of the selection menu control inside <template> , then assign it to the control variable. Next, we write the handler function for the onpointerup event of the element carrying the sample text. Inside the function, we get the selection and the selected string using document.
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(); } } 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(); } If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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