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Get whole paragraph from text selection
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get-paragraph-from-selection.js
// Discussion here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/845390/javascript-to-get-paragraph-of-selected-text-in-web-page
var selection = window.getSelection();
var textNode = selection.anchorNode.parentNode;
var text = textNode.innerHTML;
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