Can I get a Javascript event from the selection of text outside of text or textarea?

Question

I would like to know when a user selects text in an html page using Javascript. The text should not be editable. The onselect event seems to be only applicabl

Answer 1

Sure, an example exists here: http://www.codetoad.com/javascript_get_selected_text.asp

Using what you see here, you could bind events to the click/release events of the document body, and check to see if there is a selection, and how long the selection is to determine if they've selected any text.

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