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How to get selected text in textarea?
So I want to get the text selected within textarea. val() returns entire text so that's no good.
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It's not a duplicate, I need the text that is currently selected in the textarea. – A-OK May 23 '11 at 00:13
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@Chris, he wants only the selected text, that is not a dup of the question. – Dustin Laine May 23 '11 at 00:14
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no, it's not. the question is about getting the _selected_ text – Alp May 23 '11 at 00:14
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@Chris Not quite, but it is definitely a dupe. – alex May 23 '11 at 00:14
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Argh, oops :) You're quite correct. – Chris Dennett May 23 '11 at 00:17
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2Oops, yes, dup of [How to get selected text in textarea?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/717224/how-to-get-selected-text-in-textarea) – BenMorel May 23 '11 at 00:17
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Try this: http://cfsilence.com/blog/client/index.cfm/2009/7/31/RetrieveReplace-Selected-Text-With-jQuery – Alp May 23 '11 at 00:17
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The field selection jQuery plugin should provide what you requested
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1Indeed, it looks like the jQuery plugins website is down for some time. I think this [GitHub repo](https://github.com/localhost/jquery-fieldselection) has the original code, though. – BenMorel Nov 05 '12 at 22:25