https://github.com/nv/select-text.js

Element.prototype.select(start, end) and Text.prototype.select(start, end)
https://github.com/nv/select-text.js

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Element.prototype.select(start, end) and Text.prototype.select(start, end)

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nv/select-text.js
• Owner: NV
• Created: 2010-06-27T20:53:04.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: gh-pages
• Last Pushed: 2010-07-13T14:04:15.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-30T07:02:02.513Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: http://nv.github.com/select-text.js/test/
• Size: 93.8 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.mdown

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# select-text.js

Makes text selection a little less horrible. It's about [Selection](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Selection) and [Ranges](http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range/ranges.html).

## Example

    


    I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, my father was Zaphod Beeblebrox the Second...

    


Let's say we want to set a selection to "Beeblebrox the Second.":

    

    var quote = document.getElementById("quote")

    var string = "Beeblebrox the Second."

    var startIndex = quote.textContent.indexOf(string)

    quote.select(startIndex, startIndex + string.length)

    

How would you do that without `select` method?

## [Tests](http://nv.github.com/select-text.js/test/)

Works well in Google Chrome 6.0.447.0, Safari 5.0, and Opera 10.54. A little buggy in Firefox 3.6.6.