get html and text of highlighted (selected) elements (spans) and store text in hidden textarea

Question

I want to know how to get the html and text of spans that are selected. Example html:

<span>a</span>
<span>b</span>
<span>c</span>
<span>d</span>

so if I highlighted with my cursor (a-b)...I would get

var storedHtml =     `<span>a</span> <span>b</span>`
var text = "ab"

and the text would be stored in a hidden textarea

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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There's a few articles on this already:

edited May 23 '17 at 12:19

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answered Sep 29 '11 at 18:23

Ryan Ternier

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