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 getSelection api. After selection a text run below code in console.

var selection = window.getSelection()
var baseOffset = selection.baseOffset
var length = selection.focusOffset -selection.baseOffset
var text = selection.focusNode.data.splice(baseOffset, length)