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Created December 1, 2012 23:08
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Selected text alert in javascript
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javascript-select-text
var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0),
content = range.extractContents(),
span = document.createElement('SPAN');
span.appendChild(content);
var htmlContent = span.innerHTML;
range.insertNode(span);
alert(htmlContent);
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