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How can I detect if a user selection (highlighting with mouse) is within/a child of a certain element?

Example:

<div id="parent">
   sdfsdf
   <div id="container">
       some 
      <span>content</span>
   </div>
   sdfsd
</div>

pseudo code:

if the entire range of window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0) is within/a child of #container
 return true;
else
 return false;

Update: I think this can be done by looking at each of the parent elements of the most top element in the range and see if there's a match with #container. I just need help writing this in JavaScript.

Sam
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