Get bounding rectangle of selected text javascript

Question

I use this code How can I position an element next to user text selection? to get the position of the selected text, but it doesn\'t work for the selected text inside an input.

Answer 1

You can use the following code to get the position of selected text:

var selection = window.getSelection();
var getRange = selection.getRangeAt(0); 
getRect = getRange.getBoundingClientRect();