The Selection object represents any currently selected section of a document.
Sections of a document are typically selected by the user holding down a
mouse button and dragging the mouse, but can also be created by scripts using
the select
method on a
Text Range Object.
Properties
type
The type
property is read-only and can be one of two values
("None" or "Text"). If the user has selected some text and/or other elements
in a document, then the type
property will return "Text", otherwise
if no selection has been made, the type
property will return
"None".
Methods
clear
The clear
method can be used to remove the current text selection
from the document. This is going to prove useful for people wanting to build
WYSIWYG HTML editors based on Internet Explorer 4.0. Coupled
with methods like the execCommand
method (see the
Document Object)
to insert HTML elements, a new breed of editors will start to appear based
entirely on the Internet Explorer 4.0 HTML rendering engine.
createRange
The createRange
method creates a
Text Range object
from the current active selection. This can then be manipulated through the
properties, methods and events of the TextRange object.
empty
The empty
method deselects the current selection, sets the selection
type
to "none", and sets the item property to null. The visual
effect of the empty
method is deselection of the text (i.e.
its highlight is removed) Note : The two methods
will only work in the text section below and at the time of writing, using
the empty
method caused the document to scroll to the top.
For example:
Select your method choice from the radio buttons below, then select any of
this text (left-mouse button and drag) and press the right-mouse button to
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Events
The Selection Object has no events.
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