Selecting text in an element (akin to highlighting with your mouse)

Question

I would like to have users click a link, then it selects the HTML text in another element (not an input).

By \"select\" I mean the same way you would select

Answer 1

here is another simple solution to get the selected the text in the form of string, you can use this string easily to append a div element child into your code:

var text = '';

if (window.getSelection) {
    text = window.getSelection();

} else if (document.getSelection) {
    text = document.getSelection();

} else if (document.selection) {
    text = document.selection.createRange().text;
}

text = text.toString();