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Javascript documentfragment to string (w/ text selection)
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// selection range | |
var range = window.getSelection().getRangeAt(0); | |
// plain text of selected range (if you want it w/o html) | |
var text = window.getSelection(); | |
// document fragment with html for selection | |
var fragment = range.cloneContents(); | |
// make new element, insert document fragment, then get innerHTML! | |
var div = document.createElement('div'); | |
div.appendChild( fragment.cloneNode(true) ); | |
// your document fragment to a string (w/ html)! (yay!) | |
var html = div.innerHTML; |
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This post is gold, thank you everyone! Whish you a happy 2023.