A RetroSearch Logo

Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Search Query:

Showing content from https://developer.cdn.mozilla.net/en-US/docs/Web/API/Selection/toString below:

Selection: toString() method - Web APIs

Selection: toString() method

Baseline Widely available

The Selection.toString() method returns a string currently being represented by the selection object, i.e., the currently selected text.

Syntax Parameters

None.

Return value

A string representing the selection.

Description

This method returns the currently selected text.

In JavaScript, this method is called automatically when a function the selection object is passed to requires a string:

alert(window.getSelection()); // What is called
alert(window.getSelection().toString()); // What is actually being effectively called.
Specifications Browser compatibility See also

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4