Get the HTML source code of the selected text?

Asked May 03 '16 at 10:14

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I have a page with a blog article on it. People can select part of this article and I want to store the part they have select, but not just the text on screen, the HTML source.

Example, the screen shows;

The Boerboel Breeders Association was established in 1983 in the Senekal district.

Where the full code is:

<p>
    The Boerboel Breeders Association was <strong>established in 1983</strong> in the Senekal district.
</p>

So I want that when somebody selects "was established in 1983 in the Senekal district" it returns to me the source code as per:

was <strong>established in 1983</strong> in the Senekal district

I am using Javascript & jQuery.

asked May 03 '16 at 10:14

Lazhar

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how you are getting selected in you case without html tags? – Bhushan Kawadkar May 03 '16 at 10:18
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5083682/get-selected-html-in-browser-via-javascript – Harpreet Singh May 03 '16 at 10:23
One question ... you want the comple p tag or just the strong tag ? – Tushar Gupta May 03 '16 at 11:03
@TusharGupta it was just for the strong tag, not the parent one. I selected the right answer, works great :) – Lazhar May 03 '16 at 11:09
Ok if that was the case....the answer was already here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5643635/how-to-get-selected-html-text-with-javascript. Plagiarism is not good. Rest is upto the moderators – Tushar Gupta May 03 '16 at 11:13

Get the HTML source code of the selected text?

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