How to select text in IE?

Question

I'm using the following function to get selected text and it works very well in all major browsers but it doesn't work correctly in IE before version 9!

function getSelected() {
    var t = '';
 if (window.getSelection) {
     t = window.getSelection();
} else if (document.getSelection) {
    t = document.getSelection();
    t = t.toString();
} else if (document.selection) {
    t = document.selection.createRange();
    t = t.text;
}
    return t;
}

var txt = getSelected();

The problem here that with IE before version 9 it doesn't store any text in the variable "txt"

possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5643635/how-to-get-selected-html-text-with-javascript see if that helps you. — abc123, Jan 28 '13 at 22:29
my problem with IE this code does work with all the browsers but doesn't work with IE — Develop Smith, Jan 28 '13 at 22:47

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/ytJ35/

The below is taken from How to get selected html text with javascript?

this javascript function works in IE7 and above:

function getSelected() {
    var text = "";
    if (window.getSelection
    && window.getSelection().toString()
    && $(window.getSelection()).attr('type') != "Caret") {
        text = window.getSelection();
        return text;
    }
    else if (document.getSelection
    && document.getSelection().toString()
    && $(document.getSelection()).attr('type') != "Caret") {
        text = document.getSelection();
        return text;
    }
    else {
        var selection = document.selection && document.selection.createRange();

        if (!(typeof selection === "undefined")
        && selection.text
        && selection.text.toString()) {
            text = selection.text;
            return text;
        }
    }

    return false;
}

Tested in chrome, IE10, IE6, IE7

How to select text in IE?

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